Jan 22, 2025 · ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghans who fled after the Taliban seized power appealed Wednesday to U.S. President Donald Trump to exempt them from an order suspending the relocation of refugees to the United States, some saying they risked their lives to support U.S. troops.. An estimated 15,000 Afghans are waiting in Pakistan to be approved for resettlement in the U.S. via an American government program.

4 days ago · After the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, the Biden administration began a program allowing 76,000 evacuated Afghans to enter the United States for humanitarian reasons ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Refugees who had been approved to travel to the United States before Jan. 27 have had their travel plans canceled by the Trump administration. Among those affected are the more than 1,600 Afghans ...

6 days ago · He describes sleepless nights, and says the anxiety is affecting his work in his combat unit, serving the United States. Babak, a former legal adviser to the Afghan Air Force, is still in hiding ...

Jan 21, 2025 · The U.S. secured the release of two Americans held in Afghanistan in former President Joe Biden’s final hours in office in exchange for the release of an Afghan Taliban member in U.S. custody ...

Jan 21, 2025 · Khan Mohammed, center, is embraced in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, after his release as part of a prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. Mohammed, who had been sentenced in California to two terms of life imprisonment in 2008 on drug trafficking and terrorism charges, was freed in exchange for ...

Jan 21, 2025 · ISLAMABAD -- A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and ...

Jan 20, 2025 · FILE - UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters fly during a military parade to mark the third anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan, in Bagram Air Base in the Parwan Province of ...

Jan 21, 2025 · As of 2023, more than 90,000 Afghans had settled in the United States, according to statistics cited by Mustafa Babak, an Emerson Collective fellow who is an advocacy and resettlement expert. But ...

Nov 26, 2024 · WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has agreed to testify publicly at a House of Representatives committee hearing on the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, the panel...