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Tag Archives: Escape from the Taliban

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Turkey Deports 365 Undocumented Afghan Migrants

10th April, 2023 · admin

Khaama: Turkish media reported on Monday that 365 illegal migrants who were recently deported from Turkey, 138 of them on Saturday and 277 of them on Sunday, arrived at Kabul from Aghra City by an Afghan plane. Earlier in January, over 68290 Afghan nationals were deported from Turkey, out of 124,441 illegal immigrants during the

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Posted in Refugees and Migrants, Taliban, Turkey-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Escape from the Taliban |
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US Continues Relocating Afghans Even Under Taliban Rule

4th April, 2023 · admin

Akmal Dawi VOA News April 4, 2023 Inside a large building that was once used as a commercial guesthouse for foreign visitors in Kabul are numerous rooms occupied by families and individuals who are not allowed to go outside or disclose their exact location to anyone. Brought from different parts of Afghanistan, the residents are

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Posted in Refugees and Migrants, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Escape from the Taliban |
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Female footballers who fled Afghanistan in 2021 criticise BBC’s ‘false footballers’ article

18th March, 2023 · admin

The Guardian (UK): Female football players who fled Afghanistan after Kabul fell to the Taliban in 2021 are criticising a recent BBC article which has labelled some of those evacuated as “false footballers”. The investigation by BBC Newsnight said some of the descriptions of UK visa applicants as national players or members of a regional

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Posted in Afghan Sports News, Afghan Women, Britain-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: Asylum, Escape from the Taliban |
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Thousands of Afghans who helped British forces ‘remain stranded by UK’

10th February, 2023 · admin

The Guardian (UK): Several thousand Afghans who helped British forces before the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 remain stranded and at risk from the Taliban because of failures of the government’s settlement schemes, according to a damning report by MPs. The defence select committee’s report urged the government to set out what action it is

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Posted in Britain-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants, Taliban | Tags: Escape from the Taliban |
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Afghanistan’s Ethnic Kyrgyz Want To Escape The Taliban, But It’s No Easy Task

25th January, 2023 · admin

By Baktygul Chynybaeva Farangis Najibullah January 24, 2023 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Dozens of ethnic Kyrgyz from Afghanistan’s remote Wakhan Corridor are calling on the government in Bishkek to repatriate them to their ancestral homeland so their children can get the education that the Taliban has denied them. In video statements sent to RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service,

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Refugees and Migrants, Taliban | Tags: Escape from the Taliban, Kyrgyz, Kyrgyzstan, Turks in Afghanistan |
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Tens of Thousands of Afghans Work Their Way Through US Immigration System

25th December, 2022 · admin

Aline Barros VOA News December 25, 2022 More than a year after the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan, tens of thousands of Afghan families totaling more than 88,500 individuals have resettled in the United States through different immigration paths. Some have access to permanent residence while the rest have permission for short-term stays without the

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Posted in Refugees and Migrants, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Asylum, Escape from the Taliban |
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Republican Senators Remove the Extension of SIV Program for War Interpreters

9th December, 2022 · admin

Khaama: Following the removal of the Special Immigration Visa extension from the Senate version of the defense spending bill, the Democrats, veterans, and advocacy groups criticized the republican lawmakers for the decision. “The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) fails our Afghan allied, today. The Senate removed a provision to extend the Afghan SIV program as

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Posted in Refugees and Migrants, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Escape from the Taliban, US betrayal of Afghans |
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‘Kite Runner’ Actor a Two-time Refugee

23rd November, 2022 · admin

 The Afghan actor Ali Danish Bakhtyari, who played the role of an orphan in the 2007 film “The Kite Runner,” has fled the Taliban rule in his home country twice: first in the late 1990s, and then in 2021, when the United States withdrew its forces from Afghanistan. Keith Kocinski has the story from

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Posted in Entertainment News, Refugees and Migrants, Taliban | Tags: Escape from the Taliban |
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Turkey pushing tens of thousands of Afghans back at Iran border: HRW

18th November, 2022 · admin

Ariana: Turkey is routinely pushing tens of thousands of Afghans back at its land border with Iran or deporting them directly to Afghanistan with little or no examination of their claims for international protection, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday. The 73-page report, “‘No One Asked Me Why I Left Afghanistan,’”

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Posted in Human Rights, Refugees and Migrants, Turkey-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Escape from the Taliban |
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After Fleeing Taliban, Afghan Journalists Find Visa, Money Woes

5th November, 2022 · admin

VOA News November 4, 2022 WASHINGTON — Afghan journalists who fled across the border to Pakistan to escape Taliban rule say they still face an uncertain future. Living in Pakistan often on temporary or family visas, many are unable to find work and are concerned about their legal status when their permits expire. “We don’t know

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Posted in Economic News, Media, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: Afghan Journalists, Escape from the Taliban |
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