'If I go back, maybe they will kill us': Afghans in U.S. fear forced return

After a deadly shooting in Washington DC, a sweeping immigration freeze has left thousands of Afghan families fearing they ...
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Ethnic Divisions in Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! In response to a clip of President Carter's National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski speaking in Afghanistan in 1979, Yale University Law ...

Immigration Officials Target Afghans for Deportation in Wake of D.C. Shooting

The stepped-up enforcement comes as the Trump administration has also moved to reassess the vetting of Afghans who came to ...
Royal United Services Institute

In Afghanistan, the Taliban are here to stay

The Taliban today is a more composite organization, as they have expanded geographically. In eastern Afghanistan, they have absorbed new networks that were not Taliban, whereas the movement originally ...
The Diplomat

Why Is Tashkent Reluctant to Reconnect with Ethnic Uzbeks Abroad?

Apart from 29 million Uzbeks living in Uzbekistan, there are almost 3 million ethnic Uzbeks in neighboring Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, and another 2 to 4 million ethnic ...
The Daily Princetonian

The necessary step of building a free Afghanistan

I must admit I was a skeptic. When I first heard that the United States would possibly participate in overthrowing the Taliban, I balked at the idea. It seemed impractical and without purpose. It ...
Yahoo

UK-based group documents rights abuses since Taliban takeover of Afghanistan with 'witness map'

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A U.K.-based rights group on Thursday launched an interactive map documenting rampant human rights abuses and violence against civilians since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan ...
NPR

Film Roles Lead to Fear in Afghanistan

The families of three young boys in the adaptation of The Kite Runner are worried about retaliation. The boys' work on the movie included appearing in a rape scene. Afghan-American author Hyder Akbar ...
Reuters

Q+A: What is Afghanistan's loya jirga; what does it do?

(Reuters) - After his inauguration on Thursday, re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced he would organize a "loya jirga" -- a large assembly of Afghan leaders. Loya jirgas have ...
UNHCR

Afghanistan: Jalozai closes

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 12 February 2002 We issued ...
Reuters

Q+A - What is Afghanistan's loya jirga; what does it do?

(Reuters) - After his inauguration on Thursday, re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced he would organise a "loya jirga" -- a large assembly of Afghan leaders. Loya jirgas have ...