Allies Podcast
1) Episode 7: Adjustment
Mahnaz was a member of a Female Tactical Platoon in the Afghan Military. She was one of tens of thousands of Afghans who came to the United States during the withdrawal from Afghanistan. In our final ...Show More
2) Episode 6: Allies Refuge
20 years of war and broken bureaucracy culminate during the US withdrawal at the Kabul airport. Thousands of Afghans rush to the tarmac where American forces sort through the crowds. Veterans, advocat...Show More
3) Episode 5: Extreme Vetting
We return to Fred—an Afghan combat interpreter who served with American soldiers for more than 13 years. After years of denials, an ad hoc team of lawyers and veterans tried to push his Special Immigr...Show More
4) Episode 4: Numerical Limitations
Matt Zeller deployed to Afghanistan in 2008, where an Afghan interpreter saved his life. Matt Zeller spent years trying to get him resettled in the United States and saw the problems with the SIV prog...Show More
5) Episode 3: Ongoing Threat
Fred was born and raised in Afghanistan. In 2004 he took a job as an Afghan interpreter. He ended up serving side-by-side with American soldiers for more than 13 years. Fred firmly believed in the US ...Show More
6) Episode 2: A National of Iraq
In 2003 the US started another war with the military invasion of Iraq. There, soldiers, aid workers, diplomats and politicians saw the threat that local interpreters, translators and partners faced fo...Show More
7) Episode 1: Faithful and Valuable Service
In order to tell you this story, we need to start at the beginning, just before the U.S. invasion. After 9/11, the CIA set their sights on al-Qaeda’s base in Afghanistan. After a military invasion tha...Show More
8) Trailer: Allies
From Lawfare and Goat Rodeo, this is Allies. A podcast about America’s eyes and ears over 20 years of war in Afghanistan. This show will take you from the frontlines of the war to the halls of Congres...Show More