A pregnant California woman trapped in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, said, Taliban Americans are being pursued and American citizens are being searched from house to house.
The woman, only identified as Nasria, told the Voice of America (VOA) on Friday about her experience since then. The U.S. forces left Afghanistan before the August 31 withdrawal deadline.
The 25-year-old went to the country to visit his family and get married in June, but is now trapped there with no obvious way back home. For security reasons, people only call her by her first name.
“A few days, you know, I thought to myself,’Can I go home? Will I live here in the end? Will I die here in the end?” she said.
Nasriya said that the Taliban, which now controls Kabul and most of the country, are hunting Americans.
“Obviously they are going from house to house […] Try to see, you know, if anyone has a blue passport,” she said.
She booked a flight back to the United States, but it was cancelled.
Nasria said she and her husband Tried to take an evacuation flight From Kabul Airport and the State Department have advised her where to wait for admission.
However, Nasriya stated that although she showed her US passport, the Taliban would not let her pass.
“It’s so difficult to fly by plane. We had to sleep on the street for a few days. People are actually crossing people. That’s terrible,” Nasria said.
Nasria described how the Taliban prevented her and her husband from entering the airport because the US military was evacuating American citizens and Afghan allies.
She said: “Our troops were really waiting at the door for us to continue walking, but they blocked us.” “For a while, I passed them and started walking as fast as possible, and they started shooting in my legs. And tell me to come back.”
Her Afghan national husband once begged the Taliban to let Nasria leave by herself, but she refused because she was pregnant and knew she would never return to Afghanistan.
“My child needs a father. I need a husband by my side,” she said.
Nasria said that the State Department had told her to stay where she was. They will find a way to get her out of this country But she doubted her experience.
“If I was only 15 steps away from the airport, and I was told that people would pick me up from the airport-then what hope should I have now?” she said.
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