Sami Yousafzai

While some families are still desperate to flee the Taliban’s “hell”—others have a different take on life in Afghanistan two years after the collapse of the U.S.-backed government.

Six months after he was taken out by a U.S. airstrike, al Qaeda is working on a plan to announce that their former leader Ayman al Zawahiri has died of ill-health.

At least 100 people were killed or wounded during Friday prayers at a Shiite mosque.

“There’s a lot of heartbreak associated with this departure, we did not get everybody out that we wanted to get out,” Gen. Kenneth McKenzie said.

Among those killed in the blast: six children, including five younger than age 4.

Just hours after the U.S. military warned of an imminent terror threat, the explosions killed dozens of people, including at least 13 service members.

“He was a brilliant young player, a very good human,” his coach Mobin Muhammad told The Daily Beast through tears.

Thousands of Afghans who helped the U.S. military and its allies during the bloody two-decade war are literally dying to get out of Kabul.

A source in Kabul told The Daily Beast that Taliban fighters recited verses from the Quran in a victory celebration as they overtook the presidential palace.

U.S. forces are leaving Afghanistan as quickly and quietly as possible. The Taliban is interpreting that as a “terrible defeat” for the U.S.—and motivation for violence to come.