She was lucky to escape Afghanistan. Two years later, she’s stuck in limbo.
8/8/23
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from The Washington Post,
8/6/23:
Mahnaz Akbari was supposed to be one of the lucky ones.
The former commander of an Afghan military all-female special ops team, Akbari was among the 77,000 U.S. allies successfully evacuated to the United States when the Taliban retook her country. Another 200,000 or so are trapped abroad, awaiting processing by the U.S. government.
But her place in the country that took her in is precarious.
“I’m in a legal limbo,” she says. That’s because, almost two years after the United States withdrew its last forces from Afghanistan, Congress has failed to deliver on the promises made to our allies in America’s longest war.
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