Two young sisters were trapped in Afghanistan as their mother waiting anxiously in California. Here's a look inside the girls' harrowing escape from the country.
Taliban fighters armed with AK-47s fired warning shots over the heaving crowd at the entrance to Kabul airport. Fourteen-year-old Maryam Mohammadi shuddered.
Her 3-year-old sister, Mehrsa, started to cry. “Don’t be scared,” the older girl said. “It’s just a game.”of the Taliban-controlled Afghan capital. They would head first to Ukraine and then hoped to join the girls’ parents in the U.S.
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