HIGHLIGHTS Thousands of Afghan minors seek EU asylum Unemployment risk as international troops pull out Trauma risk for unaccompanied asylum-seeking adolescents Conflict, displacement could affect next generation NANGARHAR, 19 August 2013 (IRIN) – Six years ago, when Najib* was 15, Taliban fighters came to his home in Shinwar District* in the eastern province of Nangarhar telling him to join them. After repeated visits, his family sought a way for Najib to escape, and paid a smuggler to take him to the UK. Six years on, he has just arrived back in his village, having been deported from the UK, but the threats to get him to join the Taliban are now greater than ever, he says….
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