(260611) -- KABUL, June 11, 2026 (Xinhua) -- A boy fetches water at a makeshift refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 11, 2026. A total of 724 families, which made up of 3,693 individuals, ended their exile and returned to their homeland, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, reported the official Bakhtar News Agency on Thursday.

More than 85,000 Afghan refugees have returned to their country from neighboring Pakistan and Iran over the past couple of weeks. (Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua)