Afghanistan

Monday is Nowruz, the Afghanistan new year. Sunday, several hundred recent Afghan immigrants from across Upstate New York gathered at the Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center to see each other and celebrate a new year in a new country.

Peace activists were again outside the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station Thursday, protesting what they say is an airbase command center for drones carrying out attacks around the world.

Buffalo is expected to receive 350 Afghan humanitarian parolees over the next few months, and although it’s not immediately clear how many of them will be children, some of them will undoubtedly be minors in need of K-12 education.

The five agencies that collaborate as the Western New York Refugee and Asylee Consortium are rolling out a new campaign to ensure Afghan evacuees on their way to the Buffalo area have the basic needs and additional services they’ll require upon arrival. And they’re putting they’re hopes on the community coming forward to help.

Over two decades, hundreds of thousands of Americans fought in Afghanistan or Iraq and are now watching what's going on at Kabul airport. A few of them spoke with WBFO Sunday.

Thousands of Afghans are fleeing the country to escape Taliban rule, and some are likely to end up in Buffalo.

Sen. Rob Ortt, the North Tonawanda Republican from the 62nd district, was in Afghanistan in 2008 as part of his service with the New York Army National Guard. He served as a combat mentor and advisor to the Afghan National Police in Kandahar City.

Here in Western New York, people who emigrated from Afghanistan now wait with worry for their loved ones still in the South Central Asian nation, especially women and children, after the Taliban's takeover of Kabul and most of the country.

After 16 years in Afghanistan, the U.S. can neither declare victory nor disengage. So the president calls for more troops, more time, more sacrifice — with no way of knowing how much might be enough.

The so-called Mother of All Bombs was dropped Thursday in Afghanistan. The Pentagon says it hit an underground ISIS complex.