# afghan (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 7 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover afghan. Page: Feed: --- ## [Sixth Year, Entry Five - Jalil's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/sixth-year-entry-five-jalil-s-story) _2026-08-21 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ Homework for America Day 1,832 Every day in Pakistan, Jalil does his homework for a country that has not yet let him in. He attends a language course, two hours with the travel there and back. When he is at home, he teaches his wife English for an hour because their newborn keeps her from attending a course herself. He takes his four-year-old for a walk, sometimes to the park near the house. He… ## [Counterintelligence Assessment: The Arrest of Mullah Juma Khan Fateh and the Killing of General Haseeb “Qowa‑i‑Markaz”](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/counterintelligence-assessment-the) _2026-08-21 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ The arrest of Juma Khan Fateh and the killing of Haseeb as sequential GDI actions aimed at eliminating internal and external obstacles to Taliban control in Badakhshan ## [Scout the Crochet Duck](https://www.crochet365knittoo.com/crochet-duck/?adt_ei={{ subscriber.email_address }}) _2026-08-20 · Cheryl Bennett · Crochet 365 Knit Too_ There’s something about a crochet duck that’s just ridiculously cute. Maybe it’s that adorable round little body. Maybe it’s little orange beak. Or maybe it’s the fact that a chubby yellow duck made out of soft, squishy yarn is pretty much impossible not to love. Whatever the reason, meet Scout the Crochet Duck! Scout is soft,... The post Scout the Crochet Duck appeared first on Crochet 365 Knit… ## [Counterterrorism Assessment: Hand Grenade Attack at Sham‑e Hidayat, Dasht‑e‑Barchi, Kabul Afghanistan](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/counterterrorism-assessment-hand) _2026-08-20 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ For professional CT use only ## [Sixth Year, Entry Four - Martin's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/sixth-year-entry-four-martin-s-story) _2026-08-19 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ The Man Who Burned His Proof Day 1,830 Some allies carried their proof out of Afghanistan. Martin burned his. "For security reasons, I destroyed everything," he said. The papers, the ID, anything that tied him to the Americans. He owned no smartphone in those years, so there were never photos. A week after Kabul fell, he moved his family into hiding, and before that he made certain that no… ## [PART II — The Rise and Fall of Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/part-ii-the-rise-and-fall-of-mullah) _2026-08-19 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ Succession, Schism, and the Drone Strike That Reshaped the Taliban’s Leadership ## [Five Years Since Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Lawmakers and Advocates Call for Protecting Afghan Refugees](https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/five-years-since-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-lawmakers-and-advocates-call-for-protecting-afghan-refugees) _2026-08-18 · International Refugee Assistance Project_ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 18, 2026 MEDIA CONTACTS IRAP | media@refugeerights.org#AfghanEvac | press@afghanevac.org ANAR | media@projectanar.org CWS | media@cwsglobal.org FIVE YEARS SINCE WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN, LAWMAKERS AND ADVOCATES CALL FOR PROTECTING AFGHAN REFUGEES Access a recording of the press call HERE (Washington, D.C.) — On a press call held today, advocates, legal experts, and… ## [Sixth Year, Entry Three - Zahra's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/sixth-year-entry-three-zahra-s-story) _2026-08-18 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ She Was at Work Day 1,829 On the morning Kabul fell, Zahra was at work in a courthouse. While the government collapsed, she was at her desk in a Kabul primary court, doing the day's tasks of a person who believed the system she was building would outlast the war. The reports arrived, and the atmosphere turned within minutes, and everyone in the office understood all at once that the work itself… ## [Sixth Year, Entry Two - Zalmay's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/sixth-year-entry-two-zalmay-s-story) _2026-08-17 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ The Photograph in the Trunk Day 1,828 In a trunk among his wife's things, Zalmay keeps a photograph of his American supervisor. He carried it out of his home district, through the years of moving, and across the border into Pakistan. Today, It is still with him. "To me he was a sign of trust and commitment," Zalmay said. From 2010 to 2012, Zalmay served as a guard with U.S. forces at an American… ## [The Emir Behind the Curtain: Kandahar’s Orchestrated Display of Power and the Taliban’s New Season of Fear](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/the-emir-behind-the-curtain-kandahars) _2026-08-17 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ An assessment of Mullah Hibatullah’s tightly controlled appearance, the regime’s escalating security paranoia, emphasis on unity, counterintelligence vigilance, and extremist capability retention ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/12h24hu3Wpnt) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [A different kind of AfghanEvac Weekly Update | August 17, 2026](https://updates.afghanevac.org/p/a-different-kind-of-afghanevac-weekly) _2026-08-17 · AfghanEvac · AfghanEvac_ No briefing this week. A thank you, the letters that came back from allies and volunteers, and what we just learned about September. ## [THE TALIBAN TAPESTRY: A SECRET HISTORY OF POWER, PATRONAGE, AND BLOOD](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/the-taliban-tapestry-a-secret-history) _2026-08-17 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ Inside the ISI‑engineered rise of the Taliban: proxy wars, fractured jihadist alliances, and the covert architecture that paved the way for Haibatullah’s absolutist rule. ## [Sixth Year, Entry One - Ray's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/sixth-year-entry-one-ray-s-story) _2026-08-16 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ Six years before Kabul Fell Day 1,827 Ray applied for a Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) in October 2015, six years before Kabul fell. He had earned it over three years as an interpreter for the U.S. Army, from September 2010 to September 2013, working across provinces in the south and the west. He interpreted during military operations and patrols, and in the daily back-and-forth between American… ## [Day 1,825 - Karim's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/day-1-825-karim-s-story) _2026-08-14 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ Two Pieces of Paper Karim was on duty at the compound the day Kabul fell, and the next morning he went back. Nothing was missing from his file, and he had spent fifteen years making sure of it. He was the security guard at an American-funded organization there, and the organization did not close in August 2021. It stayed open. So he kept doing what he had been doing since July 18, 2010,… ## [Fateh Northern Front: A Rising Insurgency in the Shadows of Badakhshan](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/fateh-northern-front-a-rising-insurgency) _2026-08-14 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ Wiretapped intelligence reveals Mullah Jumma Khan Fateh’s gold‑funded bid to arm northern depots, rally non‑Pashtun fighters, and challenge Haibatullah’s rule with a breakaway faction. ## [Practice Update: A.A. v. State and Follow-to-Join Asylees From Expanded Travel Ban Countries](https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/lkt-practice-update-a-a-v-state-and-follow-to-join-asylees-from-expanded-travel-ban-countries) _2026-08-13 · International Refugee Assistance Project_ On July 29, 2026, in A.A. v. State, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued an order that vacated the Trump administration’s policy applying Proclamations 10949 and 10998, commonly known as the “travel ban”, to family members of approved asylees in the United States. The district court found that the travel \[…\] ## [Day 1,824 - Nasir's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/day-1-824-nasir-s-story) _2026-08-13 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ The Empty Passport On November 10, 2025, Nasir sat for his visa interview and left his family's passports at the embassy. He started with American companies in 2007 as a welder, and later he ran a warehouse. There were training stages and examinations to pass, and the work got more particular as the years went on. Among everything across those fourteen years, the job he names as his proudest was… ## [Current Affairs Dispatch: Shaki District Erupts in Taliban Infighting](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/current-affairs-dispatch-shaki-district) _2026-08-13 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ Haibatullah’s Omari Army storms Shaki to crush Mullah Jumma Khan Fateh’s northern faction, leaving his inner circle shattered and the battlefront expanding toward Nasi and Darwaz. ## [Intelligence Assessment: CIA’s Covert Alliance and Tehran’s Counteroffensive](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/intelligence-assessment-cias-covert) _2026-08-13 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ Kurdish Militias vs. Iran’s Proxy Armies: A Brewing Ground War ## [Day 1,823 - Khan's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/day-1-823-khan-s-story) _2026-08-12 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ The Two Calls Two phone calls tell Khan's story, and they came from opposite directions. The first reached him in Mazar-i-Sharif in the days after Kabul fell, when he dared to switch his phone back on. It was his American captain, the officer he had served beside in Kandahar, calling from the far side of the world with two questions: What's happening? Are you safe? Khan was, barely, and only… ## [Make any domain metal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/y5UQYZPP7dcV) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Turn any domain into a blacked-out metal landing page with an email waitlist ## [Day 1,822 - Rafi's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/day-1-822-rafi-s-story) _2026-08-11 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ Time is Gold Five times in every twenty-four hours, Rafi checks his visa case. The check takes a minute; the status has not moved. Some hours pass, and he checks again. Every day he also watches the news for any announcement that the United States has begun issuing Afghan Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) again. His whole life now fits inside the space between those two habits. It is a strange life… ## [Five Years After U.S. Withdrawal, Afghan Refugees Are Abandoned Abroad and Targeted in the U.S.](https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/five-years-after-u-s-withdrawal-afghan-refugees-are-abandoned-abroad-and-targeted-in-the-u-s) _2026-08-11 · International Refugee Assistance Project_ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 11, 2026 MEDIA CONTACT Spencer Tilger | media@refugeerights.org FIVE YEARS AFTER U.S. WITHDRAWAL, AFGHAN REFUGEES ARE ABANDONED ABROAD AND TARGETED IN THE U.S. IRAP releases updated explainer outlining policies targeting Afghans (New York, NY) – August marks five years since the end of the United States military withdrawal from Afghanistan and \[…\] ## [Operation Eclipse: The Trump Ground Card Unleashed](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/operation-eclipse-the-trump-ground) _2026-08-11 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ In the shadows of renewed U.S.–Iran hostilities, Washington engineers a covert alliance ''Kurdish militias, regional powers, and precision warfare'' poised to redraw the map of the Middle East. ## [Reaction to Termination of TPS for Syria: “My Whole Life is Being Destroyed in Front of My Eyes.”](https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/reaction-to-termination-of-tps-for-syria-my-whole-life-is-being-destroyed-in-front-of-my-eyes) _2026-08-10 · International Refugee Assistance Project_ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 10, 2026 MEDIA CONTACTS IRAP | Spencer Tilger | media@refugeerights.org Muslim Advocates | Sadaf Hasan | sadaf@muslimadvocates.org REACTION TO TERMINATION OF TPS FOR SYRIA: “MY WHOLE LIFE IS BEING DESTROYED IN FRONT OF MY EYES.” While court case continues, thousands of Syrian community members have effectively lost their work authorization and \[…\] ## [Day 1,821 - Rashid's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/day-1-821-g-m-s-story) _2026-08-10 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ The call reached Rashid at eleven at night, which in Afghanistan in 2007 meant someone had worked hard to place it. One of the company's flatbed trucks had broken down in Shah Joy district, on the Kabul to Kandahar highway. The military convoy escorting it had moved the container onto another truck and continued the mission. The driver was still out there. Rashid was the transport manager, and… ## [AfghanEvac Weekly Update | August 10, 2026](https://updates.afghanevac.org/p/afghanevac-weekly-update-august-10) _2026-08-10 · AfghanEvac · AfghanEvac_ Last week was a banner week: two bills introduced, a flagship report released, and we're just getting started ## [Fractures in the Emirate: Haqqani’s Fury at the Rise of the 2021‑Model Taliban](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/fractures-in-the-emirate-haqqanis) _2026-08-10 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ Internal rifts threaten Taliban cohesion ## [Day 1,820 - Farida's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/day-1-820-farida-s-story) _2026-08-09 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ The School in the House Farida's Story Every morning in a small rented home in Pakistan, class begins. The teacher is Farida, and the students are her two sons. There is no school because the family cannot afford one, so she built one out of what she had, which is herself. "I am a wife, a mother, and a person who believes in education and hard work," she said. That belief has a long history for… ## [Federal court allows termination of TPS to proceed for nearly 4,000 people from Burma](https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/federal-court-allows-termination-of-tps-to-proceed-for-nearly-4000-people-from-burma) _2026-08-07 · International Refugee Assistance Project_ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 7, 2026 MEDIA CONTACTS IRAP | Spencer Tilger | media@refugeerights.org AALDEF | Stuart J. Sia | media@aaldef.org FEDERAL COURT ALLOWS TERMINATION OF TPS TO PROCEED FOR NEARLY 4,000 PEOPLE FROM BURMA “I am devastated by the court’s ruling and terrified of what will happen if I’m forced to return to Burma” (Chicago, IL) — Today, \[…\] ## [The Names We Were Told to Hide](https://hasinaakbari.substack.com/p/the-names-we-were-told-to-hide) _2026-08-06 · Hasina Akbari (Darya) · Hasina’s Substack_ On women’s names, shame, and Afghanistan ## [CLI-first decentralized GPU compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/rqqwWMO3UG38) _2026-08-06 · **Sponsored**_ Pay workers or run your GPU for FFmpeg transcode and AI inference. ## [Hidden Frontlines: Power Games in the Shadows](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/hidden-frontlines-power-games-in) _2026-08-06 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ An investigative lens on covert networks, their strategies, and the consequences for global security. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209909083/a836d8784ceff93f85621b92f1f78320.mp3) ## [Afghanistan on the Brink: Taliban’s Biometric Surveillance and Pakistan’s Covert Recruitment Fuel a New Civil War](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/afghanistan-on-the-brink-talibans) _2026-08-05 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ Cross‑Border Intelligence Maneuvers and the Rise of Armed Resistance Signal a Dangerous Regional Escalation ## [Taliban–Baloch Nexus: Plotting the Elimination of Afghan Ex‑Soldiers in Pakistan](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/talibanbaloch-nexus-plotting-the) _2026-08-04 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ Helmand Meeting Signals Coordinated Strategy to Neutralize Trained Afghan Resistance Before Re‑Entry ## [AfghanEvac Weekly Update | August 3, 2026](https://updates.afghanevac.org/p/afghanevac-weekly-update-august-3) _2026-08-03 · AfghanEvac · AfghanEvac_ USCIS ended the guarantee of an asylum interview. Plus, a secretive removal court created in 1996 holds its first hearing, a letter that arrived a hundred times, and two wins worth having. ## [Pakistan’s Shadow War: Afghan Ex‑Soldiers Recruited for Balochistan Operations](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/pakistans-shadow-war-afghan-exsoldiers) _2026-08-03 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ Selective Border Policies and Covert Recruitment Signal Islamabad’s Expanding Intelligence Strategy ## [Intelligence Assessment: How Iran, Pakistan, and Tajikistan Are Shaping a Multi‑Front Storm Against the Taliban](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/intelligence-assessment-how-iran) _2026-07-31 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ Assessing the Probability of Coordinated Armed Resistance Across Three Fronts ## [THE TALIBAN’S FIVE‑YEAR COUNTDOWN: Baradar’s Desperate Gambit as the Regime’s Lifeline Frays](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/the-talibans-fiveyear-countdown-baradars) _2026-07-30 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ Inside the clandestine push to resurrect U.S. negotiations as armed resistance ignites across northern Afghanistan ## [Federal Judge Rules Travel Ban Doesn’t Apply to Asylum-Seekers](https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/federal-judge-rules-travel-ban-doesnt-apply-to-asylum-seekers) _2026-07-29 · International Refugee Assistance Project_ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 29, 2026 MEDIA CONTACT Spencer Tilger | media@refugeerights.org FEDERAL JUDGE RULES TRAVEL BAN DOESN’T APPLY TO ASYLUM-SEEKERS Court Orders Government to Reunite Afghan Allies with Family Members (Alexandria, VA) – Today, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia ruled in favor of Afghan asylees who the Trump administration had \[…\] ## [SPECIAL EDITION: Three actions. Two deadlines. About ten minutes of your time.](https://updates.afghanevac.org/p/special-edition-three-actions-two) _2026-07-29 · AfghanEvac · AfghanEvac_ Congress can protect Afghan allies who are already here, and two federal rules would strip their right to work and their day in court. You can weigh in on all three this week. ## [Taliban Leader's Northern Doctrine: Weaponizing Tajik Commanders to Crush Tajik Resistance](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/taliban-leaders-northern-doctrine) _2026-07-29 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ Ethnic Reversal Warfare: How the Taliban Are Deploying Tajik Commanders to Decapitate Tajik‑Led Resistance Movements ## [Congress Must Act Now to Protect TPS Holders](https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/congress-must-act-now-to-protect-tps-holders) _2026-07-28 · International Refugee Assistance Project_ Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued mandates to lower courts greenlighting the Trump Administration’s stripping of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from over 6,100 Syrians and 350,000 Haitians, which will essentially render them undocumented. This means hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom have lived in the United States for over a decade, will lose their \[…\] ## [Strategic Assesment: The Northern Quiet Convergence of Resistance Against Taliban Rule](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/strategic-assesment-the-northern) _2026-07-28 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ An emerging cross‑border insurgent current reshapes the security landscape from Badakhshan to Balochistan ## [One Year On: Germany’s Family Reunification Suspension Leaves Families in Limbo](https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/one-year-on-germanys-family-reunification-suspension-leaves-families-in-limbo) _2026-07-27 · International Refugee Assistance Project_ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 27, 2026 MEDIA CONTACT Spencer Tilger | media@refugeerights.org ONE YEAR ON: GERMANY’S FAMILY REUNIFICATION SUSPENSION LEAVES FAMILIES IN LIMBO New Report Finds Germany’s Hardship Procedure Fails to Meet Standard Set by European Court of Human Rights (Berlin, Germany) — One year ago, the German government suspended family reunification for beneficiaries of \[…\] ## [AfghanEvac Weekly Update | July 27, 2026](https://updates.afghanevac.org/p/afghanevac-weekly-update-july-27) _2026-07-27 · AfghanEvac · AfghanEvac_ A bipartisan bill to shield Afghans from deportation, a pathways tool that broke through globally, and new warnings families need to see. ## [SPECIAL EDITION: Bipartisan Afghanistan TPS Act of 2026](https://updates.afghanevac.org/p/special-edition-bipartisan-afghanistan) _2026-07-24 · AfghanEvac · AfghanEvac_ A bipartisan bill would stop the deportation of Afghans this country promised to protect. Here is what it does, how it shields our allies, and what it will take to pass it. ## [Strategic Assessment: Taliban–Tajikistan Security Dialogue and the Expanding Jihadist Threat in Northern Afghanistan](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/strategic-assessment-talibantajikistan) _2026-07-24 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ When Kabul Met Dushanbe: A Confrontation Over Shadows Beyond the Northern Frontier ## [AfghanEvac Weekly Update | July 20, 2026](https://updates.afghanevac.org/p/afghanevac-weekly-update-july-20) _2026-07-20 · AfghanEvac · AfghanEvac_ A landmark report built for the courtroom, a website rebuilt into an arsenal, and a federal judge who refused to let the administration freeze Afghan cases again. ## [Family reunification in France: Tools for legal practitioners](https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/lkt-family-reunification-in-france-tools-for-legal-practitioners) _2026-07-17 · International Refugee Assistance Project_ As part of its ongoing work, IRAP Europe’s France team provides training to social workers and legal practitioners who assist beneficiaries of international protection with their family reunification procedure in France. To equip these frontline professionals throughout the administrative phase, our team provides template letters and appeals intended for the relevant authorities. The France team… ## [Iran’s Covert Appeal to the Taliban Exposes a Fractured Militant Landscape as U.S. Airstrikes Reshape the Region](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/irans-covert-appeal-to-the-taliban) _2026-07-17 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ IRGC’s Call to the Taliban Reveals a Dangerous Gap in Militant Control Across South‑Central Asia ## [The Northern Accord: How a Fractured Taliban Power Struggle Was Dragged Back from the Brink](https://ajmals.substack.com/p/the-northern-accord-how-a-fractured) _2026-07-14 · Ajmal Sohail · Counterintelligence & Counterterrorism_ A month‑long confrontation over gold, authority, and ethnic power centers forces the Taliban’s top brass into Badakhshan