Kabul, Afghanistan – U.S. soldier handed baby is back with his family

This was confirmed by family members of the German press agency on Sunday. Sohail Achmadi, who was then two months old, was lost in mid-August after he was handed over to a US soldier over a fence at the airport so as not to be crushed in the crowd, said his father Mirsa Ali Achmadi.

Achmadi claims to have worked as a security guard for the US embassy in the Afghan capital. Like tens of thousands of other Afghans who had worked for the Western armed forces and countries and feared retaliation by the militant Islamist Taliban after they came to power, he drove to the airport to leave the country.

When the family made it to the airport, they couldn’t have found their baby, Achmadi said. For months, the family had no idea what had happened to the baby. He, his wife and four other relatives now lived in the US state of Michigan.

After media reports about the family’s search, Sohail was finally found with a taxi driver in Kabul. He told the TV channel ToloNews that he found the crying baby on the ground at the airport. The child had scratches on the chest. He took it to the doctor and treated it like his own child.

Sohail was finally handed over to his grandfather in Afghanistan on Saturday. “Everyone was happy when he gave us the child,” said the grandfather.

The relatives played music and danced. The father called on the United States and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to help them reunite families in the United States.