Global Alliance Update · Event recap
Finishing the Mission, Together
Watch
The full briefing
On August 12, 2026, AfghanEvac and Local Staff International released The Allied Ledger and the Local Staff International Guidelines in a virtual briefing. Watch the full recording below, and read our press release.
The moment
Five years on, the lesson is clear
Five years after Kabul, the same failure keeps repeating: nations recruit local allies for their hardest missions, then leave them exposed when the mission ends. What happened to Afghan allies was not an accident of one withdrawal. It is what happens everywhere there is no standard for protecting the people who serve.
This briefing was about changing that, before the next crisis rather than after it. AfghanEvac and Local Staff International released the record and the standard together, so that the promise made to wartime allies becomes an obligation nations can be held to.
What we released
The record, and the standard
An accounting of the promise
Our record of how nations have kept, and broken, faith with their wartime allies. It puts the commitments and the failures side by side, so the pattern is impossible to ignore and the next government has no excuse not to see it.
A standard to be held to
A set of protective guidelines for the local staff who serve international missions, drawn from what these five years taught us. Not a wish list, a workable standard governments and organizations can adopt before the next withdrawal, not after.
What we covered
The agenda
The Allied Ledger
We released the accounting and walked through what it shows about promises kept and broken.
The Guidelines
We introduced the Local Staff International Guidelines and the standard they set.
Next steps
We laid out what comes next, and how governments, organizations, and advocates can act on it.
Who this is for
This is for everyone in the fight
Whether you shaped this policy, reported on it, or lived it, this briefing, and the record and standard it released, is for you.
- Government and military officials working on relocation, resettlement, and ally protection
- Advocates, coalition partners, and veterans service organizations
- Journalists covering Afghan allies and the wider question of wartime commitments
- Afghan allies, local staff, and anyone who has served alongside an international mission
The takeaway
The record is public. The standard is set.
The Allied Ledger and the Local Staff International Guidelines are out. Watch the briefing, read our press release, and help hold governments to the promise made to their wartime allies.
Read the press releaseThe details
Everything from the briefing
Missed it live? The full recording is above, and our press release is on the AfghanEvac Press Center. For media inquiries, contact press@afghanevac.org.