The Taliban government said on Saturday that Afghans who fled to Qatar, fearing reprisals over their collaboration with US forces, may return home “with full confidence”.

“According to media reports, a number of Afghan nationals who had been awaiting US visas in the State of Qatar have been asked to choose between the repatriation to Afghanistan or resettlement in a third country,” foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi said in a statement posted on X.

“Afghanistan constitutes the shared homeland of all Afghans and it invites all those concerned… (to) return to their homeland, whose doors remain open to them, with full confidence and peace of mind.”