Date uploaded: 2021-09-30 19:22:38
"The Taliban had not yet knocked on my door, but we knew they would." When Kabul fell, Fatema Hosseini had only bad options. As a female journalist who’d worked for USA TODAY, she could stay and be killed (or taken) by the Taliban or she could run. But getting out seemed impossible.
Through an unlikely series of connections, she was offered a seat on a plane. But could she get to the airport? Pushing through crowds, lying to get past the Taliban and encountering all manner of violence, there were times Fatema thought she couldn’t go on.
See more of her incredible story at fatemasescape.usatoday.com #afghanistan
