Tag: Afghanistan
From machine gun belts to bed bug welts
By Lexie Jordan and Wafir Salih
In August 2021, when the Taliban gained full control of Kabul, thousands of Afghans found themselves fleeing with hopes...
Your Views: Honoring our Afghan partners
To the editor:
Last month marked the one-year anniversary of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. A year ago, President Joe Biden summed up his deadly shambolic...
Afghan refugees face job struggles
By Olivia Anderson | [email protected]
When the United States closed the last of our military bases in Afghanistan last summer after more than 20 years in...
Our View: Aiding Afghan refugees is a love story
This is a love story with many facets.
Not romantic love as in “Love Story” the movie, but rather the love of one neighbor for...
RAFT volunteers work around the clock to support Afghan refugees
By Olivia Anderson | [email protected]
In late July 2021, a friend strongly urged Arafat Safi to flee his home in Afghanistan. Rumblings of a Taliban takeover...
Your Views: A different Afghan story
To the editor:
Amid the finger pointing that has characterized the debate over President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, former Congressman...
My View with Joe Sestak: Do what’s right for Afghan women
Afghanistan has been part of me since I walked out of the Pentagon shortly before the plane struck on 9/11. I was soon in-country...
Fallen soldier honored in Alexandria
By staff
On the morning of Sept. 10, Jose Juan Gonzalez, a U.S. Army Special Forces sergeant killed in action in Afghanistan on Aug. 21,...
Crossing the borders of misconception, G.W. students unite Alexandria and Afghanistan
George Washington Middle School eighth-grader Zoe Gage held an iPad 2 up to a video camera Tuesday morning, showing her virtual pen pals in...
