Zainullah 'Zak' Zaki, a former translator for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, faces deportation after the Biden administration rejected his special immigrant visa for the final time.
An Afghan interpreter who saved a Marine’s life and was rescued by that same Marine may now have to go back to the suffer the tender mercies of the Taliban.
A new memoir tells the story of one Afghan interpreter who fought alongside Marines during some of the war's most dangerous days and then had to fight American bureaucracy for a chance to come to the U.S.
Marine Major Thomas Schueman and Zainullah "Zak" Zaki, authors of "Always Faithful," talk about Zak's role in Afghanistan helping the U.S. military as a translator, the harrowing extraction of Zak and his family as Kabul fell, and the ongoing challenge of getting Zak properly settled in the United States.