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Thursday, November 27, 2025
National Guard Shooting Live Updates: Suspect Worked With CIA-Backed Units in Afghanistan, Officials Say - The New York Times
Live Updates: D.C. Shooting Suspect Worked With C.I.A.-Backed Units in Afghanistan, Officials Say
"The C.I.A. said that the suspect, whom officials identified as a 29-year-old Afghan, came to the United States in 2021 after the American military withdrawal. Two National Guard members were in critical condition after the shooting on Wednesday.
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The gunman who shot and critically injured two National Guard members near the White House is an Afghan who worked with C.I.A.-backed military units during the U.S. war in Afghanistan, the agency said on Thursday.
Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot near a metro station in downtown Washington, D.C., on Wednesday afternoon by a lone gunman who was also injured and later detained, officials said.
The Afghan man accused of shooting two members of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday had worked with C.I.A.-supported military units in Afghanistan, the agency said.
The suspect worked for multiple U.S. government agencies in Afghanistan, including a C.I.A.-backed unit in the southern province of Kandahar, a stronghold of the Taliban insurgency during the two-decade war there, the C.I.A. said. Officials identified the suspect as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29.
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In July, the Trump administrationwithdrew humanitarian protectionsfor Afghans who had resettled in the United States, citing Afghanistan’s “improved security situation, and its stabilizing economy.”
But many Afghans would see the situation in their country, now under Taliban rule, differently.
The Trump administration said on Wednesday that it had stopped processing immigration applications from Afghanistan, hours after officials in Washington detained an Afghan man they said had shot two National Guard troops near the White House.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which oversees U.S. immigration, made the announcement on social media late Wednesday. The two Guard members from West Virginia were in critical condition after a 29-year-old man from Afghanistan shot them, officials said. The man, who was also injured, entered the United States in 2021 under a Biden-era immigration program for Afghans leaving their country after the government fell to the Taliban.
Nov. 26, 2025, 11:51 p.m. ET
The pause on immigration applications from Afghan nationals will affect a number of Afghans who worked for the U.S. government or NATO forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan. They are eligible to apply for what’s known as a Special Immigrant Visa, but the Trump administration’s recent curbs on immigration have left many of them in limbo – either stranded in third countries or forced into hiding in Afghanistan.
Representatives for the Taliban administration in Afghanistan did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In recent months, Afghan officials have said they were ready to discuss the repatriation of Afghan nationals with the United States and other countries.
The shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., shocked Americans on Wednesday, but not everyone was surprised.
“I knew this would happen,” a member of the California National Guard texted The New York Times as news spread, speaking on condition of anonymity because he did not have authority to comment publicly.
Nov. 26, 2025, 10:19 p.m. ET
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on social media that it had paused immigration applications from Afghans. “Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols,” the agency said on X.
Nov. 26, 2025, 10:02 p.m. ET
Shawn VanDiver, the president of #AfghanEvac, a coalition of groups helping Afghans immigrate, said in a statement that the organization supports “full accountability and prosecution under the law” for the gunman. But he urged that the shooting “not be used as an excuse to define or diminish an entire community,” pointing out that Afghans seeking to settle in the United States “undergo some of the most extensive security vetting of any population entering the country.”
A 29-year-old Afghan man suspected of shooting two National Guard members came to the United States in September 2021 through a program known as Operation Allies Welcome, the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, said Wednesday night.
The Biden administration developed the program in the wake of the Taliban’s retaking of power in Afghanistan in August 2021. It allowed for the entry of certain vulnerable Afghan nationals into the United States on two-year grants of parole, which did not confer any form of permanent immigration status. Instead, the Afghans were expected to apply for other means to stay in the country, such as asylum.
Nov. 26, 2025, 9:23 p.m. ET
In a video statement, President Trump declared the attack on the National Guard members an “act of terror” and used the shooting to repeat anti-immigrant rhetoric. He attacked the suspect, who came from Afghanistan, and other immigrants from other war-torn countries.
Trump vowed to redouble his government’s efforts to deport migrants and suggested he may further scrutinize migrants who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban took over that country in 2021. “We must now re-examine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan,” he said.
Nov. 26, 2025, 8:39 p.m. ET
The 29-year-old Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members came to the United States in 2021 through a program known as Operation Allies Welcome, according to two people familiar with the case who were not authorized to share details publicly. The Biden administration program provided entry to Afghan nationals fleeing the Taliban takeover of the country after the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
Nov. 26, 2025, 8:34 p.m. ET
The suspect in the shooting is an Afghan man named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, according to people familiar with the investigation, who all asked to speak anonymously because they weren’t authorized to share details publicly. One of the people said he was 29 years old.
President Trump on Wednesday called for a crackdown on immigration and ordered 500 more troops to Washington after the shooting of two National Guard members patrolling the capital and the identification of an Afghan national as the suspect.
Mr. Trump posted a video shortly after 9 p.m. from Palm Beach, Fla., where he is spending Thanksgiving, describing the shooting as an “act of terror” and “a crime against humanity.” He called the suspect, whom people familiar with the investigation identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, an “animal” who shot the guard members “at point-blank range in a monstrous, ambush-style attack just steps away from the White House.”
Two National Guard Members Shot Near White House
Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were in critical condition after being shot near the White House on Wednesday. Officials said the gunman was in custody and appeared to have acted alone.Eric Lee for The New York Times
The shots rang out on the touristy side of the city, where several bystanders reported hearing a short burst of gunfire, followed by a longer barrage.
Stacey Walters, a nurse who lives in Washington, was heading to the dry cleaners when she heard a pair of gunshots.
Ms. Walters, 43, had been riding in an Uber, she said. Just outside her window, she watched a group of small children being rushed to safety before law enforcement officers approached her car and ordered her driver to turn around.
“I wanted to cry,” she said. “I’ve never been so close to something like that, let alone at the holidays.”
The shooting injured two members of the West Virginia National Guard. They were in critical condition on Wednesday afternoon, according to Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director. Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington called the attack a “targeted shooting.”
It occurred near the Farragut West Metro station, which is just around the corner from Lafayette Square and the White House. Some tourists anxiously asked one another whether any shooter had been apprehended. (The police said that a suspect was in custody.)
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In a part of the city where residents are accustomed to Secret Service members, police officers and motorcades, many seemed unsure of how to navigate the scene, which was crisscrossed with yellow police tape by midafternoon. Dozens of emergency vehicles were amassed at the corner of 17th and I Streets NW.
Several of the people who heard gunshots said that they had traveled to Washington to be with family for Thanksgiving.
“I knew right away it was shooting,” said Tim Moye, 48, who was in the city to visit his son. “I live in Albany, Ga., and we hear that all the time.”
“I just saw a bunch of people start running as soon as those shots came,” he added.
Jamie McGee, 48, was eating lunch outside just blocks away from the shooting. She was with her 20-year-old daughter, Nyla, a student at Howard University. They saw a group of National Guard soldiers rushing past them, they said, just as the sirens began to blare.
Leonard Koontz, 80, of Adairville, Ky., was staying at the Club Quarters hotel, which is next to the site of the shooting, when he went down to the lobby for a cold drink. He did not know that anything had happened until the elevator doors opened downstairs.
“There were three M-16s pointed at my face,” he said.
The rifles belonged to law enforcement officers, and Mr. Koontz was escorted to a back exit of the hotel, he said. As he passed through the lobby, he could see Secret Service members and strobe lights outside.
“You don’t know what to expect anywhere, anytime these days,” he said. “People are plumb crazy.”
Mr. Koontz could not immediately get back upstairs to his wife, so he borrowed a bystander’s cellphone to call her. She was unconcerned, he said. “She said she saw it on the internet that there was a shooting on 17th St. But she didn’t know it was next door.”
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