
Afghan Interpreter Who Was Denied US Visa Lives in Hiding From the Taliban
Published on November 13, 2023
More than a year after the United States’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, one Afghan interpreter says he fears death at the hands of the Taliban after his applications for a U.S. visa were denied. Ahmad Ehsan accompanied the U.S. Army in 2018, serving as an interpreter and cultural advisor in Kabul, Afghanistan, until January 2021. The Epoch Times is using a pseudonym to protect his safety. Mr. Ehsan is one of an estimated 62,000 Afghan interpreters and others who, by the end of 2021, had worked alongside U.S. forces in America’s longest war with the hope of evacuating the war-torn country....
