As we've been reporting, millions in the Middle East have been caught in the crosshairs of Iran's ballistic missile attacks.

That includes more than a thousand Afghan refugees who thought they were headed to the U.S.

before the Trump administration froze the refugee program last year.

Since then, they've been stranded on an unused military base in Qatar.

More than half of them are women and children.

Now having fled one war, they're trapped in another. Our special correspondent, Lela Malana

Allen, reports from Qatar.

Whaling sirens signal another incoming volley of missiles launched by Iran on the small Gulf

nation of Qatar.

My phone lights up with the trembling voice of a young teenager.

We were eating dinner when suddenly we heard missiles exploding above our camp.

I'm terrified right now. I'm shaking. My heart's beating so fast. I don't know what to do.

The family has nowhere to run or hide. They're trapped between Iran and the U.S. base that's become the principal target of Iran's attacks here.

My brother, he was outside. He was playing. My mom went to get him, but he was screaming. He said he saw missiles exploding.

At Camp Assaliyah near the Al-Dade Air Base,

the largest U.S. base in the Middle East, 1100 Afghan refugees have languished for more than a year.

Until last week, their main concern was frustration as they waited to start the new lives

they were promised in the United States. Now, trapped in the middle of America's war with Iran, they're just praying they'll get out alive.

Since the start of the war until now, everyone's been living in confusion, stress and fear,

children asking their mothers, mom, am I going to die now?

The camp's occupants have begged State Department staff to evacuate them, but they've been told they're safe and can't be moved elsewhere for now.

A former military camp in the Qatari desert, As Sayaliyah was meant to be a brief stop for Afghans being processed for U.S. visas after the United States pulled out of Afghanistan in 2021,

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