Germany and the netherlands have decided to allow failed afan asylum seekers to stay temporarily. German anterior minister horace c. Hoffer said that the move comes in light of a voneston security situation. Ali: "It's painful watching all this, it seems like, for the whole is knowing that it could have been avoided"
The Afghan refugee crisis started long before the US withdrawal. Al Jazeera English correspondent Ali Latifi explains from Kabul.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah with help from Jillian Weinberger, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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