Afghan Woman in Limbo at Kabul Airport After Taliban Sweep

Afghan Woman in Limbo at Kabul Airport After Taliban Sweep
Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway of the international airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug.16. 2021. Verified UGC via AP
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With hundreds of Afghans rushing the tarmac of Kabul’s international airport desperate to flee the return of the Taliban, a young Afghan woman stood in limbo between two worlds.

In one world, Massouma Tajik would board a flight to a country she did not know, destined to become a refugee. In another, she would stay in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, forced to wipe out the last 20 years of all that she had built and achieved.