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1 hour ago Image caption, Afghan journalist Basira Joya It has been a year since 76,000 Afghan nationals were resettled in communities across the US, but their stories – especially those of the female journalists who fled home – are still untold, reports Stephen Starr for the BBC. For five years, broadcast journalist Basira Joya […]
The United States helped lay the groundwork for the quick fall of Afghanistan when U.S. troops left the country in August 2021 by failing to create “an independent and self-sustainable” security force there after 20 years and $90 billion spent, the government’s watchdog for Afghanistan reconstruction revealed Monday. In the days leading up to and during the U.S.-pullout, […]
Comment on this story Comment ISLAMABAD — Hundreds of Afghan refugees facing extreme delays in the approval of U.S. visas protested in Pakistan’s capital on Sunday, as an American program to help relocate at-risk Afghans fleeing Taliban rule stalls. The U.S. government’s Priority 1 and Priority 2, known as P1 and P2 refugee . . […]
NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a request by families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks not to enforce his decision against letting them seize $3.5 billion of frozen Afghan central bank assets to satisfy court judgments owed by the Taliban. The families, comprising more than 10,000 […]
The top U.S. diplomat to Afghanistan has apologized for suggesting that Afghan women might find inspiration for their struggle against Taliban oppression in the #BlackGirlMagic social media movement. “Sometimes, our best intentions go awry because we haven’t listened enough or don’t truly understand others’ lived experience,” Karen . . .
News By Victor Nava February 16, 2023 | 11:56pm The Biden administration’s top diplomat to Afghanistan apologized Thursday for a cringeworthy Twitter post in which she suggested that women in the war-torn nation needed some “Black Girl Magic” to overcome the Taliban’s oppression. “Sometimes our best intentions go awry because we haven’t listened enough or […]
Federal charges against an Afghan soldier who traveled to the United States seeking asylum after the 2021 fall of Kabul were dropped this week “in the interest of justice,” according to a report. The Texas Tribune reported Tuesday that case against Abdul Wasi Safi, who illegally entered the U.S . . .
Migrants wait for their turn to board a Border Patrol van in Eagle Pass, Texas. Photo: Veronica G. CardenasAFP via Getty Images) An Afghan soldier is still seeking asylum in the United States after being arrested at the
HOUSTON (AP) — Abdul Wasi Safi kept documents detailing his time as an Afghan soldier who worked with the U.S. military close to him as he made the monthslong, treacherous journey from Brazil to the U.S.-Mexico border. He fled Afghanistan fearing retribution from the Taliban following the August 2021 American withdrawal, and hoped the paperwork […]
The Afghan woman ran down the street toward her friend’s apartment as soon as she heard the news: the White House had publicly weighed in on her family’s case. Surely her child, who she says was abducted by a U.S. Marine more than a year ago, would . . .