‘They’re Looking for Them Door to Door’: Afghans in New York React to Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan

Karim Faizy, manager of Bakhtar Halal Kabab, in Hicksville, Long Island, shows a video of his uncle cleaning up his house after it was bombed in Afghanistan, on Aug. 30, 2021. Enrico Trigoso/The Epoch Times

With the United States completely withdrawn militarily from Afghanistan since the nation’s involvement after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and with the Taliban terrorist group having seized troves of U.S. weapons, Afghans living in New York hope that by force of miracle, stabilization can come to their home country.

The Epoch Times reached out to members of the Afghan community in New York to get their thoughts on the situation.