The US government is in discussions to potentially resettle over 1,000 Afghans who assisted America's war effort and relatives of U.S. service members in Qatar to a third country, Congo. The refugees, who have been stuck at a US base in Doha for a year, include Afghans who served as interpreters and with Special Operations Forces, as well as their immediate families. The State Department is working to identify options to “voluntarily” resettle the refugees in another country, but did not specify which nations were being discussed. An alternative is to return to Afghanistan, where they face likely reprisal or death at the hands of the Taliban. The discussions come more than a year after President Donald Trump halted the previous administration's Afghan resettlement program.