{"id":68924,"date":"2025-01-15T02:05:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T17:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/14\/evacuees-us-withdrawal-afghanistan"},"modified":"2025-01-15T02:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T17:05:54","slug":"afghans-evacuated-by-us-in-chaos-of-withdrawal-are-languishing-in-foreign-camps-documents-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68924","title":{"rendered":"Afghans evacuated by US in chaos of withdrawal are languishing in foreign camps, documents reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: records show evacuees with pending applications to enter US \u2018forced to remain in limbo\u2019 in at least 36 countries, some in \u2018untenable conditions\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Afghan citizens who fled the country with American assistance after the US\u2019s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan remain stranded in third countries, new documents shared exclusively with the Guardian suggest, some at prison-like facilities and many with no clarity about their prospects for resettlement.<\/p>\n<p>US officials won\u2019t say exactly how many Afghans remain at such sites, where they were taken after the withdrawal that involved hundreds of thousands fleeing for their lives during the Taliban\u2019s lightning takeover in 2021. Some advocates estimate that \u201chundreds\u201d remain stranded in temporary facilities in up to three dozen countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/14\/evacuees-us-withdrawal-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: records show evacuees with pending applications to enter US \u2018forced to remain in limbo\u2019 in at least 36 countries, some in \u2018untenable conditions\u2019Afghan citizens who fled the country with American assistance after the US\u2019s chaotic withdrawal f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,415,533,451,1113,212,1163,524,61,554,1083,47,2431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-donald-trump","category-germany","category-italy","category-kuwait","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-oman","category-qatar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-trump-administration","category-us-immigration","category-us-news","category-us-mexico-border","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68925,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68924\/revisions\/68925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}