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Operation Allies Refuge was an evacuation effort carried out by the United States during the 2021 Taliban offensive.It took place in the final weeks of the War in Afghanistan and saw the airlifting of certain at-risk Afghan civilians (particularly coalition-allied interpreters), employees of the American embassy in Kabul, and other prospective applicants for the U.S. Special Immigrant Visa (SIV).
Map showing the flow of Afghan refugees following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 Afghan evacuees boarding American aircraft during Operation Allies Refuge in 2021. Afghan refugees are citizens of Afghanistan who were forced to flee from their country as a result the continuous wars that the country has suffered since the Afghan ...
By March 2022, Canada resettled 8,580 Afghan refugees. [194] On 17 August 2021, the United Kingdom Government announced a new resettlement programme that aims to resettle 20,000 Afghan refugees over a five-year period in the UK. [195] [196] Afghan evacuees arrive at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily, 22 August
SEE MORE: Many Afghan refugees face 'mental torture' over unstable future in US President Biden is urging Congress to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act . It was re-introduced over the summer by a ...
DHS said that since July 31, 2021, USCIS has also received approximately 16,200 asylum applications from Afghan evacuees, of which more than 2,000 had been approved as of April 16.
Fall of Kabul; Part of the 2021 Taliban offensive of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the war on terror: Clockwise from top left: Afghans fleeing Kabul Airport aboard a US Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, US Marines assisting at an evacuation checkpoint at Hamid Karzai International Airport, coalition soldiers assist a child during the evacuation, armed Taliban fighters in Kabul, Taliban ...
As refugees arrive in the U.S. from Afghanistan, activists are calling for the Biden administration to offer more to help them during their resettlement.
While more than 5.7 million former refugees returned to Afghanistan after the 2001 invasion, [91] by the time the Taliban returned to power in 2021, 2.6 million Afghans remained refugees, [92] while another 4 million were internally displaced. [93] [94]