The United States’ longest war is over. But not for everyone.
Walmart Foundation pledges support to two refugee-serving groups as well as the organization behind the National Military Survivor Helpline. The Walmart Foundation is lending its support to No One Left Behind, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service and the veteran-serving Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (T.A.P.S.).
You wouldn’t know it at first glance, but the Hon. Samea Hassas has helped sentence some of the most violent criminals in Afghanistan.
The Philippines and the United States have formalized an agreement that will allow a limited number of Afghan nationals to transit through the Philippines while finalizing their Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applications before resettling in the United States.
The three years following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan have been a deadly game of cat and mouse for employees and allies of U.S. and NATO forces left behind under Taliban rule. Among the de facto government’s targets are thousands of Afghan prosecutors trained by U.S. personnel to enforce the rule of law and prosecute terrorists.
My phone buzzed incessantly in my pocket that day in August 2021, interrupting what was meant to be a much-needed moment of rest. It was 3 p.m., and after months of working around the clock, I received word that the unthinkable was happening: Afghanistan’s capital Kabul was falling to the Taliban. The city’s collapse marked the start of what would become the largest airlift in U.S. history, as hundreds of thousands of Afghans scrambled to escape on hastily organized military flights.