Baby handed to US soldiers in chaos of Afghanistan airlift still missing

The parents of Sohail Ahmadi, around two-months-old, handed him over the fence to a US soldier on August 19 in the chaos following the US troop withdrawal at the Kabul Airport. But by the time the family got to the other side of the fence, the baby was nowhere to be found.

It was a split second decision. Mirza Ali Ahmadi and his wife Suraya found themselves and their five children on Aug. 19 in a chaotic crowd outside the gates of the Kabul airport in Afghanistan when a US soldier, from over the tall fence, asked if they needed help.

Fearing their two-month-old baby Sohail would get crushed in the melee, they handed him to the soldier, thinking they would soon get to the entrance, which was only about 16 feet (5 meters) away.