Him Afghan News Today

After years of searching, DNA tests, social media and old-fashioned tenacity have played crucial roles in reuniting fractured families. Here, six people tell their stories

A Q&A with Gulshan Yusufzai, who fled Afghanistan with her family in the 1980s during the Soviet invasion of the country. Today, as executive director of the Muslim American Society Social Services Foundation (MAS-SSF), she is lighting a candle in the window for the over 1,700 Afghan refugees projected to resettle in the Sacramento region by year’s end. 

Adela Raz has kept the Afghan embassy open with a skeleton staff.