Omar Qudrat is running as a Republican for Congress in the 2018 U.S. election and is thought to be one of the first Afghan-American Muslims to run. Recently, he spoke with VOA's Ajdin Muratovic.
Californian recently served as prosecutor in Office of the Chief Prosecutor of Military Commissions, where he worked on war crimes prosecutions of alleged terrorists
Kremlin response follows Guardian report on Macedonian intelligence leaks about Russian meddling in regional politics
US Treasury Department recently imposed sanctions against Dodik for an active obstruction of efforts to implement 1995 Dayton Accords, which ended conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina
