The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs says Afghans who helped the US war effort and are stuck in Qatar hoping to reach the US can return to Afghanistan safely.
The statement on Saturday by the spokesman of the ministry of foreign affairs Abdul Qahar Balkhi comes after reports emerged that the Trump administration is in discussions to send 1,100 Afghans who helped the United States during its war in Afghanistan, and relatives of members of the American service, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
An organization called #AfghanEvac that supports efforts to resettle Afghans said on Wednesday that US officials informed a discussion group between the US and the DRC about taking Afghan refugees who have been in limbo at Camp As-Sayliyah, the US base in Doha, for the past year.
The State Department said it was working to identify options for “voluntary” resettlement of refugees in a third country, but did not confirm which countries were being discussed.
The alternative offered to the refugees was to return to Afghanistan, #AfghanEvac said, where they fear reprisals or even death at the hands of the Taliban for working with the United States during the two-decade war.
