I’m guessing they weighed their options and somehow thought it was the best option at the time. Maybe their beliefs didn’t align with the Taliban, or they didn’t believe they could leave the area and didn’t want to become 1 of the tens of thousands of civilians that were killed who weren’t combatants. One of them granted asylum, and one being treated like shit, hopefully they’ll get lucky and they’ll just detain him and let him go when some politician realizes it may lose more support from military members.
I’m guessing they weighed their options and somehow thought it was the best option at the time. Maybe their beliefs didn’t align with the Taliban, or they didn’t believe they could leave the area and didn’t want to become 1 of the tens of thousands of civilians that were killed who weren’t combatants. One of them granted asylum, and one being treated like shit, hopefully they’ll get lucky and they’ll just detain him and let him go when some politician realizes it may lose more support from military members.