Afghans who fled after the Taliban seized power have appealed to President Donald Trump to exempt them from an order suspending the relocation of refugees to the United States, some saying they risked their lives to support U.S. troops.

Making sure over 100 Afghan evacuees resettled comfortably here in the United States is the act that landed Samim Noorzad in the hero spotlight.

The last of thousands of Afghan refugees who awaited resettlement at eight U.S. military installations departed from a New Jersey base on Saturday.

On Sunday, Oct. 24, Virginia Tech’s Refugee and Immigrant Medical Association is hosting a fundraiser at Fork in the Alley.

People in Roanoke hit the greenway Friday night to help raise money for Afghan refugees settling in the area.

Baum says in going alone, all he can do is give them hope. He adds, maybe, that’s all they need.

Flags are flying at half staff across Virginia in honor of United States Service members and other victims killed in the Kabul airport attack.

THE HAGUE – An Amsterdam appeals court upheld Monday the terror conviction of an Afghan asylum-seeker who stabbed two American tourists, seriously injuring them, at Amsterdam’s main railway station in 2018. The court said he took a train from Germany to the Dutch capital to avenge what he perceived as insults to Islam and didn't know his victims were Americans. “The appeals court calls it a cowardly attack,” it said in a statement. The court said that the attacker only expressed remorse during the appeals case. The attacker was ordered to pay them a total of nearly 3 million euros ($3.55 million) in damages.