In America and the Taliban, our recent three-part series, Frontline looks back on America's longest war.

Afghanistan has new masters. The Taliban are back.

The third and final installment in the series looks at the lead-up to the Taliban takeover

and the stark new reality for women in Afghanistan.

Nobody believed that the entire thing will fall apart overnight.

That all our gains would be lost the way it.

Award-winning producers Marcella Kavaria and Martin Smith recently sat down with me to

talk about the reporting on the ground.

You can sense the sheer among so many women.

I'm sheer of their future and the future of their children.

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So I want to go to the lead up to the Taliban takeover and the return of harsh restrictions again,

especially on women in the country.

Can you both talk about that?

When I learned from this, I think was how important those Doha negotiations were.

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