Some 4,000 to 5,000 Afghans are fleeing into Iran each day using informal border crossings to escape Taliban rule, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said Wednesday.
Since the fall of the Afghan government and chaotic withdrawal of US forces in August, an estimated 300,000 Afghans have crossed the border into neighboring Iran, the aid agency said. NRC expects the numbers to rise by hundreds of thousands as Afghanistan’s harsh winter approaches and its humanitarian crisis intensifies.
