Afghan Interpreters

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has defended the pace at which Canada is resettling thousands of Afghans waiting to be granted entry into the country, saying the situation is “challenging” but there’s “much more to do.” Trudeau’s…

Journalist Ziar Khan Yaad and his cameraman had just set up their equipment outside a mosque in Kabul when an armoured Land Cruiser screeched to a halt beside them.It was August 2021, about two weeks since the collapse of the Afghan…

A Canadian veterans group urged the federal government Monday to send officials to Kabul to help resettle Afghan refugees after a 10-year-old girl was killed near a Taliban checkpoint. Aman Lara said the shooting death of the…

The Taliban’s killing of a 10-year-old girl who was waiting to come to Canada should “shock the conscience of every Canadian,” Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said Friday as he renewed the government’s commitment to resettling…

A 10-year-old girl was shot dead in Afghanistan while her family was preparing to flee to Canada under an immigration program for Afghans who worked for the Canadian Forces, multiple sources said Thursday. The girl, Nazifa, was…

Fatimah sat on the living room couch in a split-level home in Surrey, B.C. Her three-year-old son played on the carpet with a toy train.They arrived in Canada two months ago, through the government’s Afghan resettlement program, fleeing…

Kabul safe houses that have been providing refuge to more than 1,700 Afghan interpreters and their families are to close Friday due to lack of funding, say groups that have been trying to help them. Veterans groups previously…

The Canadian government has quietly changed the criteria on its website for a special program for vulnerable Afghan refugees so that only those who have already managed to escape to other countries are eligible. The online…

Some Kabul safe houses, where hundreds of Afghans who helped the Canadian military and non-governmental organizations are waiting to flee to Canada, are set to be closed in two weeks because of lack of funding. An organization…

Two days before he was scheduled to board a plane for Toronto, Mohammad Ismail stood in a cramped hotel room in Islamabad, packing his belongings into a small black suitcase.A pair of kid’s shoes were on the window ledge. Ismail bought…