Almost two years since he fled Afghanistan to escape the Taliban takeover, Firooz Mashoof is still haunted by the memory of his last day in Kabul -- the bus that took him to the airport, getting on a packed plane and taking off as gunfire echoed across the city.
"The last thing I saw were the mountains around Kabul and the dreary sunset as the Qatar Airways took off," he said.
The walks stave off panic attacks that he has been forgotten -- or the "crazy fear" for his family back in western Herat province.The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO troops were in the final weeks of their withdrawal from the country after two decades of war and as the U.S.-backed Afghan government and military crumbled.
As the Taliban pursued an ever more hard-line path, a severe economic downturn followed, despite efforts by aid agencies to help large swaths of the impoverished nation. There are about 76,000 Afghans already in the U.S., where congressional efforts meant to permanently resolve their immigration status have also stalled.
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