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Ahmed-Waleed Kakar

Taliban special forces fighters stand guard outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport after the U.S. military's withdrawal, in Kabul, Afghanistan

An Afghan journalist breaks down the sociological makeup of today’s Taliban

Afghanistan

“They are literate, they can read and they can write and are generally very young,” says Waleed Kakar, editor of the Afghan Eye, about the Taliban today. He discusses the sociological makeup of the group with The World’s host Carol HIlls.