Former Afghan diplomats are stuck in limbo abroad. A church

When the government he worked for lost power, Javid Qaem was Afghanistan’s ambassador to China. He’d been in Beijing since right before the pandemic started.“And we were the biggest partner of the United States in the region,” he said.Now back in Arizona, Qaem is grateful to the U.S. State Department.“We were lucky in that sense that the U.S. Embassy in Beijing [was] very

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