Date uploaded: 2021-08-17 15:02:04

Haris Tarin, a 42-year old Afghan-American, feels like he is reliving the past as the Taliban took control of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, on Sunday. Tarin immigrated to the U.S. with his immediate family as refugees in 1986 during the Soviet war. When the Taliban took over in 1996, Tarin said he would hear stories of what his family in Afghanistan had to go through. "My uncle, who was living at that time in Kabul, was beaten by the Taliban for not having a long enough beard. My aunt was killed by a rocket that fell into the house that they were living in," Tarin said. "Now as an adult, I'm reliving all of this again." He is not alone. In the United States, many Afghan-Americans like Tarin are living in fear over what may happen to their loved ones back home, waiting to hear news and wondering when they will see them again.