News - World: Afghanistan’s refugees who fled the country after the United States’ chaotic withdrawal of military forces are currently living in deplorable conditions at facilities run by Americans in Qatar.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby acknowledged that the Afghan evacuees are living in inhuman conditions at a US airbase. He said “everybody’s focused on trying” to improve the situation.

Kirby was speaking to Axios on Tuesday after photos and video footage obtained by media outlets showed hundreds of Afghan refugees staying in an unsanitary hangar at al-Udeid airbase.

Staff at the US embassy in Kabul also decried how Afghan refugees were being treated at the facilities in Qatar, according to a State Department diplomatic cable obtained by the Middle East Eye.

According to the cable, the refugees were being kept in “un-airconditioned housing with too few lavatories – especially for women” at the US airbase.

Source: Press TV