Taliban spokesman: 'No part of the country is out of our control'

Speaking on the BBC's Today Programme, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen (pictured right earlier this year) said that after 20 years of fighting, the new leaders of Afghanistan wanted to build a 'welfare state' for its people. 'We are the people of Afghanistan', Suhail said on Saturday, while insisting that violence 'is not their policy' and that women 'have their basic rights'. Meanwhile, war-weary residents of Kabul expressed anger and feelings of betrayal by the United States as the world marked the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that prompted a U.S. invasion of Afghanistan toppling of its Taliban rulers at the time. But after a two-decade occupation, U.S. forces abruptly pulled out of Afghanistan last month, triggering the collapse of its Western-backed government and the Taliban's dramatic return to power. The group claims they have changed from 20 years ago, and intend to build a new country for its people. On the ground reports, however, paint a different picture. Pictured left and bottom inset: Taliban fighters patrol Kabul today.

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