May 8, 2022 | 7:54 AM
The Taliban orders women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public
The restrictions on women’s movement and dress are the harshest that the Taliban have announced since they came to power in August
tag | Afghanistan
February 10, 2022 | 11:10 AM
Afghan families in Philadelphia frustrated at high bar to help loved ones escape Taliban
Since last July, 40,000 Afghans have applied for humanitarian parole. Slow processing times and a high bar to qualify mean some in Philadelphia have been waiting for months with no word about their friends and family members’ chance to get to safety.
November 5, 2021 | 2:41 PM
Afghan refugees begin arriving in the midstate
Church World Service, a refugee resettlement agency in Lancaster County, is working with 30 people who were temporarily housed at military bases around the country.
September 10, 2021 | 10:37 AM
Support for resettling Afghan refugees in the U.S. is broad — but has limits
A new NPR/Ipsos poll shows unusually wide support for resettling Afghans allies. Even many Republicans who favor tighter controls on immigration say the U.S. should help those who fled the Taliban.
By Joel Rose/NPR September 8, 2021 | 2:45 PM
Biden pledged to end the forever wars, but he might just be shrinking them
Biden made the pledge during his presidential campaign. But the withdrawal of ground troops from Afghanistan isn’t the end of all U.S. military operations.
By Asma Khalid/NPR September 7, 2021 | 3:04 PM
New book documents 20 years of war and what went wrong in Afghanistan
The United States’ messy withdrawal and the quick Taliban takeover of Afghanistan shouldn’t have been a surprise after one reads the new book The Afghanistan Papers – A Secret History of the War by Pulitzer Prize nominated Washington post reporter Craig Whitlock.
By Scott LaMar 
