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The US said a Marine could not adopt an Afghan girl. Records show officials helped him get her.

By Claire Galofaro & Juliet Linderman · AP News · February 2026

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"Thousands of pages of once-secret court documents show how federal officials and a Virginia court helped an American Marine adopt an Afghan war orphan, in defiance of the U.S. government’s official policy to unite the child with her family. "

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