House committee passes resolution aiming to bring home Louisville man kidnapped by the Taliban | News [Video]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — It’s been 544 days since Ryan Corbett was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan, but lawmakers in Washington met Tuesday to work on a solution to bring him home to his family in Louisville.

Corbett moved to Afghanistan with his wife Anna and their kids in 2010, starting a company to help Afghans start their own small businesses. After rebuilding their lives and spending years there, Kabul fell to the Taliban. A worldwide story in 2021, the Corbetts had to flee the country with thousands of others.

Not wanting to leave the people he’s helped behind, Corbett went back, and his visa was approved the following year. It was on a trip in August 2022 that he was kidnapped by the Taliban.

He is currently living in a 9-foot square cell. He isn’t getting proper nutrition, is only getting outside once a month and has had …