‘They are looking for us to kill us’: In hiding from Taliban, Afghans who helped U.S. struggle to escape
WASHINGTON — He has been hiding from the Taliban ever since Kabul fell in August, nearly starving to death at one point during Afghanistan’s bitterly cold winter.
In the weeks after the U.S. ended 20 years of military occupation in Afghanistan, the former Afghan Armed Forces commander lost several fellow soldiers who put up one last fight against the Taliban takeover. His brother, shot in the kidney, almost died earlier in combat.