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My CARE Authorization Act, which I worked on with Congressman Jim Baird and is now law, specifically says that Secretary Marco Rubio SHALL appoint a Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts. Last week, Secretary Rubio said he would comply with these requirements. Clearly he lied.

Shokofa Safari, a 28-year-old former Afghan National Army officer, has alleged that Taliban members gang-raped her over two nights while she was detained in Kabul, according to an interview with Rukhshana Media. afintl.com/en/202505303655

In the early post-withdrawal days, finding economic support for allies left behind was difficult. Once the invasion of Ukraine took place, it became even tougher. By now, I know of no one with extra funds to help - despite there being increasing need. Does anyone have leads on

"I scare myself sometimes," veteran Chris Robinson says of listening to the stories our warfighters tell him about HKIA for The Last Deployment Project. Learn more about those stories and Chris' important work at the latest episode of The Afghanistan Project:

Last week in #Afghanistan de facto authorities publicly flogged at least 63 males & 4 females. These gross punishments that violate int'l law have increased massively in 2025 & must stop. A stark reminder that Taliban must not be normalized and no Afghans abroad forcibly returned

Ben, an Afghan Christian elder in Oklahoma, joins me on The Afghanistan Project Podcast to talk about the danger of practicing Christianity in Afghanistan, and the fates of multiple Christian Afghans in the U.S. who now face deportation. Please listen, share, and subscribe:

I asked SIV & USRAP allies overseas to share their feelings about the end of Enduring Welcome/the Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts. I received so many responses that I'll have to write a second piece. Please keep sending them - this also goes for advocates/volunteers.

This week, the Taliban is tracking women leaving UN offices, following them home and threatening their fathers/husbands not to allow them to return to work. Afghan women are risking their lives. The international community needs to stand up to the Taliban and support them.

“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Afghan Christian Ben talks about what the Afghan Christians who pursued the pathway from Brazil to the southern border faced when they sought safety from persecution in the U.S. Now, they face deportation. From my latest at The Afghanistan Project Podcast:

NEWS: Trump's travel ban fully restricts entry of nationals from 12 countries, sources told CBS News: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.  It partially restricts entry of people from seven

The Trump administration has issued a sweeping new travel ban—including Afghanistan. Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) holders are exempt from the ban. Afghans can still apply for SIV status. But let’s be clear: tens of thousands of others are now blocked from entry. 🧵

Al Qaeda, whose members plotted 9/11 from the safe haven that the Taliban provided them in Afghanistan, is resurgent in Afghanistan and supported by the Taliban, but I’m “so clueless it’s hilarious.”

Still think irony is dead? Pakistan, founder of Taliban and father of terrorism, just got picked to chair the UNSC Taliban Sanctions Committee and become vice chair of the Counter Terrorism Committee. Yup, that is true. If that doesn’t make you laugh-cry at once, nothing will.

Silence is not an option. If you want to come on The Afghanistan Project to talk about an ascendant AQ, repetition of pre-9/11 conditions, the dangers our allies face, or the deployments or non-military duty tours you went on in 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan, I want to host

Thankfully we don’t have more women in positions of power. Things might get too dramatic!

“It is as if the chaos of the withdrawal in 2021 continues.” The Trump administration is shutting down key programs meant to resettle Afghan allies. reason.com/2025/06/06/u-s…

My latest at reason deals with the issues facing Afghans with the ending of CARE and Enduring Welcome and the administration’s new travel ban: reason.com/2025/06/06/u-s…