Life under the Taliban's iron fist: Five years to the day since the fall of Kabul, DAVID PATRIKARAKOS travels to Afghanistan where he meets AK-47 toting officials as well as the men and women abandoned by the West

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Blood is seeping from the dead man's skull. He lies face down on the baking runway, and it pools beneath him like a halo.