The family of Ryan Corbett, one of the Americans in the exchange, said their hearts were filled with overwhelming gratitude for his release.

U.S. Senate leaders are calling for the Taliban's immediate release of an American citizen with ties to Louisville.

Ryan Corbett has been held captive by the Taliban for nearly a year and a half, suffering in a 9 foot by 9 foot cell.

Dozens of members of Louisville's Afghan community staged a protest to bring attention to what they call genocide happening in their native county.

Kentucky Refugee Ministries resettled over 300 Afghans, primarily between November through February, while another 140 were helped in Lexington and around 30 people in northern Kentucky.

"I want him to be remembered as the goofball he was, and he was always there. If anybody needed him, he was always there."

Nicholas Tabor, from Louisville, is a retired U.S. Army Sergeant who worked with the interpreter in 2010-11.

As the crisis in Afghanistan continues, a Louisville organization is stepping in to offer any help it can for those displaced.

The embassy in the Afghan capital closed down on Sunday following reports that officials there were destroying sensitive documents and equipment ahead of the Taliban's arrival.