Stuck for over a year behind a perimeter fence in a defunct American military base on the edge of Doha, 1,100 former Afghan allies of U.S. forces and their families have escaped Afghanistan with their lives only to find themselves trapped in uncertainty.
"We are all living in extreme anxiety, we feel that we are in limbo, not only me and my family, but other people here," Rasouly, a former interpreter for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and now a 19-month resident at Camp As Sayliyah (CAS) in Qatar, told reporters by phone.
Set in a hinterland of desert scrub and truck depots on the outskirts of the Qatari capital, CAS has served as a holding site for Afghans being processed?in the hope of resettling in America since the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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