Sohail Ahmadi was just two months old when he went missing on Aug. 19 as thousands rushed to leave Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban.
KABUL, Afghanistan - An infant boy handed in desperation to a soldier across an airport wall in the chaos of the American evacuation of Afghanistan has been found and was reunited with his relatives in Kabul on Saturday, Jan. 8.
During the tumultuous Afghan evacuation over the summer, Mirza Ali Ahmadi - the boy's father who had worked as a security guard at the U.S. embassy - and his wife Suraya feared their son would get crushed in the crowd as they neared the airport gates en route to a flight to the United States. With no U.S. embassy in Afghanistan and international organizations overstretched, Afghan refugees have had trouble getting answers on the timing, or possibility, of complex reunifications like this one.The timing is still unknown however, said a second U.S. official with knowledge of the situation, because regular evacuation flights are not currently leaving the country. The U.S.
After the Reuters story about the missing child came out, some of Safi's neighbors - who had noticed his return from the airport months earlier with a baby - recognized the photos and posted comments about his whereabouts on a translated version of the article. The baby's family sought help from the Red Cross, which has a stated mission to help reconnect people separated by international crises, but said they received little information from the organization. A spokesperson for the Red Cross said it does not comment on individual cases.Finally, after feeling they had run out of options, Razawi contacted the local Taliban police to report a kidnapping.
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