The Afghan army column in armored vehicles and pickup trucks drove past the desert to reach Iran.
Military pilots fly low and fast to the safety of the Uzbekistan mountains.
Thousands of members of the Afghan forces managed to get to other countries over the past few weeks when the Taliban quickly captured the country.
Others managed to negotiate surrender and return to their homes and some save their weapons and join the victory side.
But tens of thousands of hearing, command, and other Afghanistan spies were struggling to the end, despite talks in Washington that Afghan troops surrendered, had been left behind.
They are now in runaway, hiding and being hunted by the Taliban.
“There is no way out,” Farid said, an Afghan command, in a text message to an American soldier who fought him.
Farid, who agreed to be identified only by his first name, said he was hiding in the East Afghan mountains, trapped after the soldier’s unit surrounded around him.
“I pray to be saved.” The Taliban account looked for people they believe in working with and fighting with us and NATO troops began to drip, offering bleeding matches to softer faces that militants had tried to attend the world.
Militants threaten to capture or punish family members if they cannot find the people they are looking for, according to former Afghan officials, secret reports prepared for the United Nations, and American veterans who have been contacted by those who are desperate Afghans together with them.
Officials said the Taliban had combed a record at the Ministry of Defense and Interior and the Afghan spy service headquarters, compiled a list of operators to search.
On paper, Afghan forces number 300,000.
But because of corruption, desertion and victims, only the sixth of the actual in the war against the Taliban this year, US officials said.
Militants focused on 18,000 army commands, many of which did not give up, and officers from spy services, the National Security Directorate.
Some of these people have been sheltered in Panjshir Valley, a strategic piece in the north of Kabul where a handful of Afghan leaders tried to regulate the strength against the Taliban.
They are said to have 2,000-2,500 men, but independent confirmation is not available.