Afghanistan's Grim Reality: Rescue Efforts and Violence Persist Under Taliban Rule.

U.S. veterans and nonprofit organizations are working to secure safety for Afghans endangered by their support of U.S. personnel before the withdrawal from Afghanistan. A group of 22 Afghans who were fleeing the Taliban were denied entry by South African officials and were forced to stay in a detention cell in the basement of the airport in Zimbabwe. The group was eventually released and is currently awaiting the processing of special immigrant visas to the U.S.