Rahmanullah Laknawal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who worked with the CIA-backed “Kandahar Strike Force” until August 2021, opened fire on two U.S. National Guard members on Wednesday, just a few blocks from the White House. According to information released about him, Laknawal served in a special military unit in Kandahar that operated directly under CIA supervision and carried out counter-Taliban missions. This elite unit, known within Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) as the “Zero Units,” was responsible for conducting …
During the recent 12-day war with Israel, Iranian security agencies announced, without providing any concrete evidence, at least five separate incidents involving the arrest of Afghan migrants—both individually and in groups—accused of being "Mossad agents." These arrests occurred primarily in Tehran and Mashhad. In three of these cases, Iranian authorities released videos of forced confessions recorded at police facilities. In two other cases, however—one involving 18 Afghan migrants allegedly preparing drones for operations near …
The family of four Afghan refugees who died in Greek waters claims that the incident was deliberate and, more than a month later, they have yet to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones. On December 20, 2024, a family of four Afghan migrants lost their lives in Greek waters after their boat collided with a Greek Coast Guard ship. The family says they have still not been able to recover the bodies from the Greek authorities. On December 20, the Greek Coast Guard issued a statement saying that a boat carrying migrants sank in the Aegean Sea ne…
In the past three years, a lesser-known migration route has been added to the well-known paths for Afghan migrants that previously included only Iran, Turkey, the Balkans, and Central Europe. Many Afghan migrants, despite the risk of death or falling into the hands of ruthless drug traffickers and criminal gangs, have taken this route, which begins in Brazil and, by crossing 11 countries in South America, leads to the United States. Afghans started on this path in September 2021, after the collapse of the Afghan Republic and the return of the …
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