The announcement comes after the Trump administration paused all asylum applications and visas for Afghan nationals following Thursday's attack.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered its diplomats worldwide to stop processing visas for Afghan nationals, according to a State Department cable seen by Reuters, effectively suspending the special immigration program for Afghans who helped the United States during its 20-year-long occupation of their home country.

More than 40% of those brought to the U.S. under Operation Allies Welcome were eligible Special Immigrant Visas because they worked with the U.S. in some way over the prior two decades, or were related to someone who did. Others were allowed to resettle in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Court records show that Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was charged at the state level with making a terroristic threat.

BBC Verify looks into claims that the Afghan national suspected of shooting two National Guard members in Washington DC entered the US unvetted.

Americans who helped resettle Afghan allies in the US following the Biden administration’s 2021 disastrous withdrawal from Kabul are heartbroken and angry about the “betrayal” of