Afghans

The Taliban on Sept. 8 announced a ban on all slogans, demonstrations, and protests that do not have their official approval in yet another signal that the Islamist group is taking a hardline and repressive approach to government.

A former British minister told the UK Parliament on Monday that one of the Afghans he is seeking to help has been shot, another raped and a third person tortured. The opposition Labour Party’s Chris Bryant told the Commons he had raised 143 cases of Afghans connected with his constituency with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, […]

Elliot Ackerman has served five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a U.S. Marine Corps officer and CIA officer. Over the past 10 days, he and his cohorts have unofficially evacuated around 200 people from Kabul airport. “We gave these people our word, that if they worked with us, we would stand shoulder to shoulder […]

As news about Afghanistan dominates the headlines, Afghans living in Britain fear for their families’ safety. Some have booked flights to Afghanistan to bring their family members to the UK.

Some Afghan nationals are being allowed to enter the United States without visas, a senior Biden administration official said Tuesday.

Some Afghan migrants fleeing the Taliban try to make it through Iran. But Turkey began bolstering security on its border with Iran in recent months as the militants began advancing in Afghanistan. Reporting by Kos Temenes

DUBAI—The United Arab Emirates has agreed to host 5,000 Afghan nationals to be evacuated from their country for 10 days on their way to a third country at the request of the United States, the Gulf Arab state’s foreign ministry said on Friday. “The evacuees will travel to the UAE from the Afghan capital of […]

Afghan evacuees landed in the United States for the first time since the Taliban took over their home country, U.S. officials said Saturday.

As more Afghans evacuate from Taliban-held areas, some are describing their arduous journeys to the Kabul airport. They had to flee, not only from the Taliban, but also from stun grenades and gunfire near the airport.

An Afghan lawmaker said she’s afraid for her life and her freedom. A former Afghan interpreter is pleading to the UK government not to leave his family behind.

The shocking videos of Afghans clinging to a U.S. military cargo plane have prompted questions from people all over the world. NTD spoke with a retired Army officer who completed four tours in Afghanistan to get his take on this unfolding situation.

President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Monday defended the White House’s withdrawal from Afghanistan but admitted the South Asian country fell to the Taliban terrorist group faster than officials had anticipated.

KABUL—Thousands of Afghans desperate to leave the country thronged Kabul airport where five people were killed on Monday after Taliban terrorists seized the capital, prompting the U.S. military to suspend evacuations to clear the airfield. Crowds converged on the airport seeking to escape, including some clinging to a U.S. military transport plane as it taxied […]

WASHINGTON—Some 200 Afghans were set to begin new lives in the United States on Friday as an airlift got underway for translators and others who risk Taliban retaliation because they worked for the United States during its 20-year war in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said. The operation to evacuate U.S.-affiliated Afghans and family members comes as […]