The top Taliban leader has slammed President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Afghans, calling the United States an “oppressor.”

More than 24,000 international students from the affected countries studied in the U.S. as recently as the 2023-2024 academic year.

Trump and others have defended the initial ban on national security grounds, arguing it was aimed at protecting the country and not founded on anti-Muslim bias. However, the president had called for an explicit ban on Muslims during his first campaign for the White House.

"Egypt has been a country that we deal with very closely. They have things under control," Trump said of the nation's exemption from his travel ban.

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