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Americans in Afghanistan are wanted by Taliban fighters, visited door to door

TRIBUNNEWS.COM, ACCEPT – A citizen of the United States (US), a native of California, named Nasria who is pregnant, flew to Afghanistan last June to visit family and get married.

In early September 2021, he remained one of about 200 U.S. citizens left behind in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of chaotic U.S. forces.

Now that the US military is gone, the Taliban are hunting for the remaining Americans.

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That’s what he told the Voice of America.

“I thought, am I going to make it home? Am I going to end up here? Am I going to die here? What is going to happen?” said Nasri, who asked to write only his first name for security reasons, as reported by Foxnews.

He said the Taliban were coming to them door to door, trying to see if anyone had a blue passport.

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Last week, Darrell Issa, a person who works to save Americans remaining in Afghanistan, said that Nasria had been kicked in the stomach by fighters. Taliban.

“Anyone who says no people were stranded is wrong,” said Issa.

When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban’s rule, Nasria and her husband, an Afghan national, rushed to the crowded and chaotic Kabul airport to evacuate.

Afghan women take part in a protest march for their rights under Taliban rule in downtown Kabul on September 3, 2021. AFP/HOSHANG HASHIMI (AFP/HOSHANG HASHIMI)

She and her husband tried to reach the designated location for 12 to 13 hours but Taliban blocked them at gunpoint even when he showed them his US passport.

Even as they continued to walk, the troops Taliban shoot right near his feet and tell them to come back or they will be shot.

Despite that time, her husband, an Afghan citizen begged to Taliban to let her go without him, still Taliban refuse.

This article has been published on KONTAN, with the title: Taliban fighters are hunting down Americans in Afghanistan

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