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Hanif Sufizada

Crowd at night gathered around a Luftwaffe transport plane

An Afghan American scholar describes his fear-filled journey from the chaos at Kabul airport to a plane bound for home in the US

Afghanistan

Hanif Sufizada got caught in Kabul as the Taliban took over. A scholar and resident of the US who works at the University of Nebraska in Omaha describes his experience trying to leave.

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