afghan
Example Sentences
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Afghans who worked alongside US troops during almost two decades of war were once promised a home in the United States to shelter them from the extremist intolerance of the Taliban.
From Barron's
During the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019, an Afghan refugee threw a hand-held credit card machine at the shooter to give congregants more time to hide.
The announcement followed the arrest of an Afghan national suspected of shooting two National Guard troops over the Thanksgiving weekend, an incident the White House pointed to in highlighting its security concerns.
From BBC
Hundreds of Afghans who had been promised flights out by the previous German government were denied entry after a renewed review.
To be Afghan is to try to hold your families and communities together while a succession of narratives are remixed, unmixed, overturned, reformed, forgotten and reinvented — and deployed as weapons against your people.
From Salon
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