Afghan nationals who converged on Kabul expecting to be evacuated along with other partners of the United States now face a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek with the Taliban.

“I’m stucked in Kabul (sic) can’t go to my hometown because the [Taliban] have their checkpoints on the roads, and recently the [Taliban] have killed an Afghan contractor who was with American[s] in Salang,” one Afghan national wrote Tuesday in a message viewed by the Washington Examiner.

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