AfghanEvac A father of six who fought shoulder-to-shoulder with U.S. troops in Afghanistan died just hours after he was detained by ICE. Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, served as an Afghan special forces soldier from 2005 and worked alongside U.S. Army Special Forces for more than a decade before he was evacuated by the U.S. and resettled while he sought asylum, according to the AfghanEvac nonprofit. Read more at The Daily Beast.