Standing behind our SIV allies a bipartisan effort
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Samuel Ruiz

Standing behind our SIV allies a bipartisan effort

Dating back to 2006, Congress has created one permanent and two temporary Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) programs to afford legal permanent resident status to Afghan and Iraqi nationals who served…

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Broken Promises: The Price of Abandoning Local Partners

The complex wars playing out from Eastern Europe to the Arabian Peninsula have cast a spotlight on how partnerships between major military powers and local groups can be a powerful…

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Standing With Our Afghan Allies

For decades, our Afghan allies stood beside us on the battlefield. They fought with us. They bled with us. And in some instances, they died protecting us. Along with veterans…

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Afghan Allies Suffering in America
A. Tabesh at his home in Baltimore. (Valerie Plesch for The Washington Post)

Afghan Allies Suffering in America

Not only did we leave countless Afghan Allies, who fought by our sides and saved our lives, in Afghanistan to be hunted by the Taliban, but those we did safely…

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SOAA Calls for Support of our Afghan Allies in The Hill
An Afghan soldier, from left, serves an interpreter as a civilian talks to US soldiers from Viper Company (Bravo), 1-26 Infantry during a patrol at a village near Combat Outpost (COP) Sabari in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan on June 19, 2011. Ted Aljibe / AFP - Getty Images file

SOAA Calls for Support of our Afghan Allies in The Hill

Have you had a chance to read the Op-Ed that our Senior Advisor, Timothy Torres, wrote for The Hill? If you haven’t yet, check it out here! In his incisive…

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