Then President Donald Trump issued executive orders that put an end to programs used to help Afghans get to safety in America. Now those same Afghans, who underwent a yearslong background check ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order this week suspending the U.S. refugee admissions program has left in limbo tens of thousands of Afghans who were hoping to start new lives in America.

As part of its drive to expel Afghan citizens from the nation’s capital, Pakistan has deported dozens bearing UNHCR-issued documents, the agency told VOA Thursday. Authorities in Islamabad ...

About 20,000 Afghans were approved for resettlement in the U.S. under a program that helps people at risk because of their work with the American government, media, aid agencies and rights groups.

Afghan nationals who had worked with the United States or NATO forces were particularly fearful of reprisals from the Taliban. Promised resettlement in the US, many traveled to Pakistan to await ...

He just didn’t feel home. It took another journey to change that ― this time, to Erie, where Mohammad became one of the city’s first Afghan homeowners in 2024. The move was a big commitment ...

Afghan Mohammad Inbrahim, 35, who worked with the U.S. Army, poses for a photo in northwestern Albania, Jan. 27, 2025. (Vlasov Sulaj/AP) They helped the U.S. military order airstrikes against ...

Police have launched a probe following the death of a 21-year-old man in Paisley. Emergency services were called to Maree Road and Lochbroom Road in the Foxbar area of the town following reports ...

Denying the exceptions, it added, also will show foes like Islamic State that "the U.S. abandons its allies," and endanger active-duty Afghan-American U.S. military members' wives, children and ...

The heartbroken girlfriend of a young man who died following a disturbance in Paisley has paid tribute to the "craziest lad", after his death. Robert McNally, 21, was found seriously injured in ...

The order “risks abandoning thousands of Afghan wartime allies” who worked with Americans before the Taliban takeover, the head of a resettlement group said. By Yonette Joseph An executive ...

Those connected to the US mission in Afghanistan are at risk, an advocate says. President Donald Trump's executive order freezing refugee programs could impact thousands of Afghans approved to ...