Afghan refugees

Afghans in Qatar
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The Afghans in question number around 1,100 and have been stranded at Camp Asayliyah in Qatar since 2021, when the US fully withdrew from Afghanistan.

Brooke Anderson
28 April, 2026
 A man from Afghanistan who had crossed illegally into Germany across the border from Poland sits at a federal police compound after he was detained on October 12, 2021 in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
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Immigrants from Afghanistan stay warm by a camp fire at a transit camp at the U.S.-Mexico border on January 19, 2025 near Sasabe, Arizona
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A large number of undocumented Afghan migrants gather at the Torkham border crossing of Pakistan on April 10, 2025 after being deported from Pakistan under the country's recently intensified "Illegal Foreigners' Repatriation Plan".
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Afghan refugees Iran [Getty]
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The Iranian regime has fuelled baseless rumours of Afghan refugees spying for Israel
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Afghan refugees carrying their belongings as they arrive at the zero point of the Islam Qala border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran on June 28, 2025, following their deportation from Iran. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Afghan migrants, who were living as refugees in Iran, stand in a queue at a UNHCR centre after being deported to Afghanistan at the zero point between Afghanistan and Iran, on April 27, 2025. (Photo by MOHSEN KARIMI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Samim Zalmy speaks during an interview with AFP in his apartment in Falls Church, Virginia, on August 5, 2021. - The walls of the one-bed Virginia apartment Samim Zalmi shares with his wife and children are decorated with photos of sweeping Afghan landscapes, reminders of his birth country in what he calls his "second home." Zalmi, 35, landed at Dulles International Airport outside the US capital three years ago with his wife Zarifa and then-four-year-old daughter on a Special Immigrant Visa
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The alleged massacre of Afghan migrants come amid Iran's efforts to deport thousands of them from its borders
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