I'm a Veteran Doing What the American Government Won't
Last year the war in Afghanistan came to a chaotic and dispiriting end for the United States, and the conflict all but faded from the American consciousness. But as the Opinion...
November 30, 2022
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Visa program for Afghan allies now at risk of lapsing
CNN's Jim Sciutto speaks with retired US Air Force Master Sgt. Travis Peterson about what's at stake if the Special Immigrant Visa program, which resettles Afghans and their families at risk due to previous work with the US government, lapses.
December 12, 2022
Deja Vu All Over Again: Interview with Ahmad Massoud, Congressman Mike Waltz and Legend
Ahmad Massoud, the son of the Lion of the Panshir, continues the fight. For the first time he appears on a public broadcast with a U.S. elected official, Green Beret Congressman Mike Waltz. They are joined by the Afghan-American, former Army NCO - Legend - who has returned to Afghanistan multiple times to help evacuate at-risk Afghans and American Citizens.
December 29, 2022
Global Friends of Afghanistan: Panel 1- Recognizing the Evacuation of Kabul
In partnership with Georgetown Master of Arts in International Business and Policy Programme with the McDonough School of Business and Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.
September 1st, 2022
ALABAMA MAN LEADING AFGHAN AID GROUP
Over two months after the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan, there are still some helping both, Americans, and Afghans, trying to leave the country...
October 12, 2021
THE AD HOC NETWORK THAT HELPED RESCUE AFGHANS
On Aug. 14, a restaurant owner inside the Kabul airport terminal suddenly sold out his entire stock of food, as passengers flocked to the airport. Then he noticed the Afghan customs officers, airport police and other officials changing out of their uniforms...
September 4, 2021
MILITARY VETERAN CREATES NONPROFIT
A retired U.S. Army Special Forces soldier has organized a nonprofit effort to get American citizens and Afghan allies safely out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan – and so far, he has had...
October 1, 2021
The Air Force Veteran Fighting to Save Afghans From the Taliban
Peterson, who served 10 years in Afghanistan, wanted to help the men and women he had worked and fought with to escape. Those who had partnered with the U.S. government during the 20-year occupation could be eligible for special immigrant visas, or SIVs. Peterson says that...
March 17, 2022
