afghan

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Four Afghan men were ordered to report to the Taliban government's department of vice and virtue for dressing in costumes inspired by the TV series Peaky Blinders.

From BBC

Afghans who worked with U.S. troops were believed to face danger if left behind under the Taliban-run government.

From Los Angeles Times