Thousands of people are scrambling to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban seized back control of the country, almost two decades after they were ousted by a US-led coalition.
Announcing the arrival of 378 people from Afghanistan in South Korea, Justice Minister Park Beom-gye referred to them not as refugees but as "our Afghan friends."
After many sleepless nights, a 41-year-old Afghan medical doctor successfully left Kabul with his family before the Taliban seized power last month and is set to begin a new life in South Korea.
In August 2021 in Afghanistan, people's plans had to change dramatically when the Taliban took control of the country, uprooting thousands of lives within a few days.
The U.S. post-9/11 wars have displaced at least 38 million people in and from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Libya, and Syria.
Pakistan has deported at least 180,000 Afghans back to their Taliban-run country as Islamabad cracks down on undocumented migrants, claiming they are responsible for militant attacks
