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CBS News speaks with Taliban spokesperson 25 years after 9/11

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from CBS News · Middle East

CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab sits down with Taliban spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi, five years after the group's return to power in Afghanistan. They discuss the Taliban's claims of peace and stability, the country's ongoing humanitarian crisis and restrictions on women and girls, as well as U.S. military hardware, frozen assets, future U.S.-Afghanistan relations and lessons from two decades of war.

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