More than 1,000 Afghan refugees have been stuck at a camp in Qatar since 2021 More than 1,000 Afghan refugees who fled their homes in 2021 have been stuck in Camp As-Sayliyah, Qatar. They're isolated and unable to leave, despite many having aided U.S. forces during the war. Transcript JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Five years ago this week, the U.S. war in Afghanistan ended with the evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Kabul and desperate scenes of Afghans trying to escape the Taliban's return. Some made it to the United States, but many others are still in limbo, including more than a thousand who were airlifted to a U.S. base in Qatar. Even some Afghan family members of active-duty U.S. troops have been stuck there with no clear future as war has broken out in the Gulf. NPR's Quil Lawrence reports.QUIL LAWRENCE, BYLINE: Since his second term began, President Trump has been dismantling the pathways for immigration, including for more than a thousand Afghan war refugees at Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar. In February, war broke out between Iran and the U.S., with missiles passing overhead and even crashing near the camp.SEAN JAMSHIDI: So they didn't get hit, but there was fragments that fell through ...

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