Anna Vestinian at the UN Security Council called on US to return Afghanistan’s frozen assets, and criticizing the creation of a foundation based in Switzerland that will use the funds.

Switzerland in its series of aid since 2016 announced another 2.2 million USD to the Afghanistan.

An Afghan man who converted to Christianity and fled to Switzerland but was denied asylum should not be sent back to his home country, a European court has ruled. 

The US embassy in Switzerland has issued a security alert after reports of an explosion near its consular agency in the Swiss city of Geneva.

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has offered Switzerland’s services as a peace broker between the warring factions in Afghanistan. Cassis was speaking at a two-day Ministerial Conference on Afghanistan in Geneva. 

A referendum in Switzerland's northeastern region of St. Gallen has introduced a "burqa ban" that would prohibit Muslim women from wearing garments covering the entire face in public. 

An aircraft manufactured in Germany some 80 years ago has crashed in Switzerland, killing all the 20 people on board.