During Donald Trump’s first term, the Afghan American community dodged a bullet. This time, we weren’t so lucky. The new “Muslim ban 2.0,” the successor to Trump’s original Muslim ban, went into effect today, with 12 countries on its list, including Afghanistan. When President Trump began his second term in office on January 20, he...
Mallory Moench and Flora Drury BBC News Getty Images Ahmad has been hiding in Afghanistan for years. The former Afghan military employee is living in fear of being found by the Taliban, which seized power in 2021 as US forces withdrew from the Central Asian nation. As a result, Ahmad is unable to get a...
Yama Bariz BBC World Service Reporting fromTorkham border crossing BBC Hundreds of Afghan families are going through the Torkham border crossing each day Pakistan has deported more than 19,500 Afghans this month, among more than 80,000 who have left ahead of a 30 April deadline, according to the UN. Pakistan has accelerated its drive to...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News, London Regan Morris BBC News, Los Angeles Getty Images Thousands of Afghans and Cameroonians will have their temporary deportation protections terminated, the US Department of Homeland Security has said. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem found the conditions in Afghanistan and Cameroon no longer merited US protections, according to a statement from...