Afghans who fled after the Taliban seized power have appealed to President Donald Trump to exempt them from an order suspending the relocation of refugees to the United States, some saying they risked their lives to support U.S. troops.

A group of Detroit corporate and community leaders has come together to provide support services to refugees from Afghanistan and other nations as they resettle in the city.

The last of thousands of Afghan refugees who awaited resettlement at eight U.S. military installations departed from a New Jersey base on Saturday.

Two separate United Way grants have gone to Jewish Family Services and Samaritas.

The Taliban say at least five civilians have been killed by a bomb blast at the entrance of a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued the following statement as the United States prepares to receive Afghans.

THE HAGUE – An Amsterdam appeals court upheld Monday the terror conviction of an Afghan asylum-seeker who stabbed two American tourists, seriously injuring them, at Amsterdam’s main railway station in 2018. The court said he took a train from Germany to the Dutch capital to avenge what he perceived as insults to Islam and didn't know his victims were Americans. “The appeals court calls it a cowardly attack,” it said in a statement. The court said that the attacker only expressed remorse during the appeals case. The attacker was ordered to pay them a total of nearly 3 million euros ($3.55 million) in damages.