An insight into the lives of Afghan translators who risked everything to work with the US military and were left behind.
Wahdat worked as an interpreter for the US military in Afghanistan for three years. Now unemployed, he lives in hiding in Kabul, fearful of the Taliban, who have threatened his life numerous times because he worked with the American forces.
"Taliban thought that the interpreters are ears and eyes for the military ... you'll have to be killed. They don't kill you the easy way if you worked as an interpreter. They will try every maniac punishment first to hurt you," he said.
During more than a decade of US operations in Afghanistan, thousands of Afghan civilians like Wahdat signed up to work for the American military as translators.
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