Kabul Student Sees Families On Edge Amid Taliban Takeover

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Published August 15, 2021 at 5:57 PM EDT

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Aisha Khurram, a student at Kabul University, about what she is seeing in the city as it falls to the Taliban.

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