The west spent 20 years, thousands of lives and more than $2 trillion replacing the Taliban in Afghanistan with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Five years later, armoured vehicles took part in a parade through the capital Kabul to celebrate their "victory day".
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The Taliban says it has brought back security, but Afghan women tell us they are being erased from education, jobs, and hope itself.
With the Taliban's rule have come a deepening humanitarian crisis and isolation from much of the rest of the world. Women face comprehensive repression, with millions excluded from school and almost completely erased from public life.
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