As the Taliban took the
Afghan capital, 148 female
students made a daring
bid for freedom — tracked
from the US via their
phones. Would they all
make it? Catherine Philp
reports on their
astonishing getaway
Clockwise from above: the students
on board a US military transport plane;
Diana, left, and Sepehra in Syracuse,
New York state, after their evacuation;
Taliban fighters at Kabul airport