America told the Afghans who served alongside its troops, diplomats, and aid workers that it would protect them. This is where that promise is documented, the receipts kept, and the record held up against the evidence, updated as it grows.
AfghanEvac's special reports sit here beside the primary-source record, from every public U.S. Afghan Special Immigrant Visa report to the inquiries, audits, and data of allied and host governments and the international bodies that have weighed in, worldwide.
Last updated August 28, 2026 at 6:31 PM PDT
The most recent dated documents in The Ledger. Subscribe via RSS to follow the record as it grows.
AfghanEvac's own special reports, the government's primary-source record from around the world, the independent non-government record, the litigation shaping the fight, the case law behind it, and a direct line to the Afghanistan War Commission.
Where the sections above curate, the Archive preserves. It's the complete, raw record — every primary-source document we've pulled down and saved: the full SIGAR catalog, the presidential record back to 1994, the wider government reports, and the founding statutes, over 4,000 in all. Browsable by archive, searchable across everything, and mirrored on Google Drive so nothing can be quietly deleted.
Open the preservation archive → AccountabilityThe official record of how the United States withdrew from Afghanistan and who answered for it: the House and Senate Foreign Affairs and Foreign Relations reports, the State Department and White House after-action reviews, the Pentagon and DHS reviews, and the SIGAR and Afghanistan War Commission oversight reports. Each links to the official source and an archived copy.
Open the accountability reports →Topline figures for reporters and oversight staff. Every number opens the underlying record on this site.
A series released across the fifth anniversary of the fall of Kabul. Each report stands on its own; together they form one continuous accounting of what was promised and what remains undone.
A bipartisan national poll on protecting Afghan wartime allies. 84% of likely 2026 voters say keep the promise, and support for admission rises from 52% to 72%, more than doubling among Republicans, once voters learn who these partners are.
The data-driven accounting of Enduring Welcome: issuance by administration, the backlog of Chief-of-Mission-approved allies, processing time against the standard Congress set, and the 2025 shutdown that froze flights and visas. The core quantitative record of where the pipeline stands.
A survey of allied nations: how countries keep, and break, their commitments to wartime allies, country by country, and the case for a shared set of Global Alliance principles. Produced in partnership with Local Staff International.
Traces the promise of protection itself: the statutory commitment Congress made to Afghans who served alongside U.S. forces, the vetting and durable-status architecture built to honor it, and how thoroughly applicants are screened before they ever arrive.
A working reference on relief options and standards for the attorneys, caseworkers, and advocates handling active Afghan cases. Built to sit beside the special reports and turn their findings into practical guidance.
The series overview
Five Years On: The Record of a Promise
Frames the whole record: what the United States promised its Afghan wartime allies, what it
built to keep that promise, and where the commitment stands today. Read it first, then work through
the reports above.
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Beyond the policy record is the operational one. The AfghanEvac Impact Report accounts for the coalition's own work: the organizations and volunteers who moved allies through a system that too often stalled, the cases carried, and the people who reached safety because a coalition refused to let the promise lapse.
The coalition's accounting of outcomes, reach, and the work still ahead.
Download PDFAfghanEvac's own letters and open letters: to the Afghan diaspora and our families, to Cabinet secretaries and Members of Congress, and to the coalition. These are the documents we wrote and sent, published in full at press.afghanevac.org.
The underlying public record, linked directly to its official source so anyone can check it, grouped by the body that produced it: Defense, Homeland Security, State, the White House, Congress, international governments, and a broader immigration and enforcement section. These are the government's own documents, not AfghanEvac's characterization of them.
The government record by country of origin. Click a highlighted country to filter the reports below to that government. The United States is the largest source; allied nations and multilateral bodies (EU, UN, NATO, Council of Europe) appear too.
Missing a document you expected to find? Send us a PDF at contact@afghanevac.org and we'll add it to the record.
DoD Inspector General, the Lead Inspector General quarterly series, and the CENTCOM reviews of the withdrawal, evacuation, and vetting.
Full archives & series: DoD OIG Lead Inspector General Reports (full quarterly index) · DoD OIG Afghanistan report search
DHS Inspector General, USCIS, and CBP records on Operation Allies Welcome, parole, screening and vetting, and resettlement.
Full archives & series: DHS OIG audits, inspections & evaluations index
The After-Action Review, State OIG oversight, the Section 7019(e) reports to Congress, and the full public Afghan SIV quarterly series.
Full archives & series: State Dept Afghan SIV references & full quarterly index · State OIG Afghanistan Oversight — Completed Work · State After-Action Review landing page
The State Department Refugee Processing Center's public USRAP archive, preserved in full by The Ledger: every Report to Congress and every refugee, Amerasian, and SIV arrivals dataset. Start with the interactive record and the archive index, then browse the source files below.
The NSC after-action summary, the presidential memoranda that created and wound down Operation Allies Welcome, and the founding executive order.
Full archives & series: Biden White House archive — Briefing Room
Committee investigations, CRS and GAO products, the Afghanistan War Commission interim reports, and the SIGAR archive.
Full archives & series: Afghanistan War Commission — Reports · SIGAR — Reports reading room
Parliamentary inquiries, audits, reviews, and normative acts from allied, partner, and host nations across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa — and from the EU, the UN, NATO, and the Council of Europe — on Afghanistan and on refugee and asylum policy. Click a highlighted country on the map to filter.
Full archives & series: UN Secretary-General reports on Afghanistan (UNAMA) · UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan — reports · EU Agency for Asylum — Afghanistan publications
Data and situation reporting from UNHCR, IOM, and UN OCHA on Afghan refugees, returnees, and displacement in host and transit countries (Iran, Pakistan, Türkiye, Indonesia, and the regional response), 2021 to present. This is international-agency data, not the host governments' own reports.
Full archives & series: UNHCR — Afghanistan Situation regional data portal · IOM DTM — Afghanistan
The broader immigration and enforcement system that shapes this work even when it is not Afghan-specific: ICE detention, the immigration courts (EOIR), USCIS and parole, and asylum and refugee oversight from DHS OIG, GAO, CRS, the USCIS Ombudsman, and DOJ.
Letters from Members of Congress to the executive branch on Afghan relocation, the SIV program, resettlement, and enforcement. Sourced from press.afghanevac.org.
Congressional correspondence, agency memos, and litigation documents AfghanEvac tracks, gathered in one Drive folder.
Independent work that complements the government record: reports from allied advocacy, legal, veteran, human-rights, and resettlement organizations, studies from universities and research institutions, and immigration organizations and data trackers. External sources, offered for reference; listing is not endorsement.
Missing a document you expected to find? Send us a PDF at contact@afghanevac.org and we'll add it to the record.
Reports and analyses from legal, veteran, human-rights, and refugee organizations working on Afghan allies (including IRAP). External work by partners and allied groups, not AfghanEvac.
Full archives & series: Refugees International — Afghanistan · IRAP — publications · Human Rights First — library
Studies from universities and nonpartisan research institutions on the war, the withdrawal, and Afghan resettlement.
Full archives & series: Costs of War — papers · RAND — Afghanistan · CNAS — reports
Immigration and civil-rights research, legal, and human-rights organizations and data trackers (ACLU, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, TRAC, MPI, American Immigration Council, NIJC, Vera, and others) covering enforcement, detention, the courts, processing, and asylum. Broader than Afghan-specific.
This section links independent, third-party work. AfghanEvac's own reports are in the Special Reports tab. Have a report we should include? Email press@afghanevac.org.
The lawsuits shaping the fate of Afghan wartime allies, refugees, and immigrants: the refugee-admissions suspension, SIV delays, the 75-country visa pause, parole and TPS terminations, and removals. The live tracker below updates from CourtListener; each card opens the docket. Offered for reference; it is not legal advice.
The tracker above is also published on its own at reports.afghanevac.org/litigation and embedded on afghanevac.org. Dockets via CourtListener (Free Law Project). For decided cases and precedent, see Case Law. Know a case we should add? Email contact@afghanevac.org.
The decisions behind the fight: landmark and comparative rulings shaping the rights of local staff and Afghan and Iraqi allies, in the United States and around the world. The international cases are drawn from Local Staff International's report Falling Between the Cracks of Law (January 2026), by Sara de Jong and Betsy Fisher. Offered for reference; it is not legal advice.
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This library is also published on its own at reports.afghanevac.org/caselaw — use that link when sharing. The asylum, withholding, and Convention Against Torture authorities are those collected in AfghanEvac's Practitioner's Companion, a companion to Protection Promised. Looking for cases still being fought? See the live litigation tracker. Know a decision we should add? Email contact@afghanevac.org.
Congress created the Afghanistan War Commission to examine the strategic, diplomatic, and operational decisions of the war from 2001 to 2021, and to draw lessons the country can actually use. Its final report is due to the public before August 22, 2026. The people who lived the war have a place in that record, and the window to add to it is closing.
Allies, interpreters, partners, and families who saw the decisions and their consequences firsthand.
Share your experience →Those who served in Afghanistan and carry hard-won judgment about what worked, what failed, and why.
Share your experience →Diplomats, aid workers, analysts, and officials with direct knowledge of the war's conduct.
Share your experience →Each link goes directly to the Afghanistan War Commission's official intake for that group at afghanistanwarcommission.senate.gov. AfghanEvac is not affiliated with the Commission and does not receive or review what you send; we point you to it because the record is stronger when the people who lived the war help write it.
