Afghan Interpreter Who Was Denied US Visa Lives in Hiding From the Taliban

‘If they find interpreters like me, they’ll first torture us, and then they’ll kill us and behead us.’

U.S. soldiers and Marines assist with security at an Evacuation Control Checkpoint during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 19, 2021. Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/U.S. Marine Corps via Getty Images

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.