From Kabul to Virginia: An Afghan family is starting over in America
Outside of her apartment window in Kabul she could see snow-capped mountains. Now, when Kamila Noori looks out of her window all she sees are office buildings and parking lots.
Noori was a prominent Afghan judge, now she's in a foreign country â a country she doesn't know, where she doesn't speak the language and where she and her family have to start over.
It's a story repeated by tens of thousands of Afghan nationals who had to leave their home after the Taliban took control of the country in August. The chaotic scenes at the Kabul airport, where people desperately tried to secure a spot on an evacuation flight, caused a public uproar around the world.
Noori and her husband, Mohibullah Mohib, managed to get their family out safely. And after nearly a week of travel, they arrived
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