Meet the Fulbright scholar and former Afghan government lawyer who is lucky she escaped

Henaa Salehi embarked on a journey from Kabul to New York for her Fulbright Scholarship position, but everything changed during the first leg of her trip to Turkey.

Salehi, who worked in the legal office for former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, boarded her flight on the morning of Aug. 15. By the time it landed, Kabul had fallen to the Taliban. The Fulbright program arranged her flights, she told the Washington Examiner in an interview. She had requested her flight to the United States to take off between Aug. 13 and 16. If they had given her a flight on the later end of that range, she might not have been able to leave.