At least 19 people have died trying to flee the country. But outside place, things are far less chaotic. Life on the outside is fairly normal. People are starting to go back about their daily lives as much as possible. The biggest change is that there's far fewer women out on the streets of cabl.
The Afghan refugee crisis started long before the US withdrawal. Al Jazeera English correspondent Ali Latifi explains from Kabul.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah with help from Jillian Weinberger, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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