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We invited you to pose questions like these on Facebook to our correspondent Nick Paton Walsh, who just returned from a reporting trip in Afghanistan.
While he was there, he witnessed a chilling development: ISIS training in the mountains, recruiting disillusioned Taliban fighters.
Paton Walsh spoke to a woman who endured a hideous ordeal. After getting raped by her cousin's husband, then being jailed for adultery, she was forced to marry her attacker.
And he spent time with the remaining U.S. troops in the country's troubled east, who are struggling to prop up a crumbling and corrupt Afghan army.
Here's what you, the readers, asked him on Facebook.
The mission has varied since the beginning, says Paton Walsh.
"At first it was kill Bin Laden and dismantle AQ (Al Qaeda), and depose the Taliban. But then it became 'Fix Afghanistan.' And then, now, it is leave Afghanistan with an army that can cope. And is slowly losing those last 6 words of the last sentence."
Nick Paton Walsh says: "It might in the end slow their drawdown, particularly if ISIS develop the military capability they are now not showing readily. The Obama administration is very keen to have all troops in the Embassy by 2017, but his successor might alter that."
Paton Walsh says he's not sure.
"(The U.S. military) has spent a lot of money, and made some people rich, leaving behind a lot of infrastructure that was not there before. They have -- in their eyes -- killed many insurgents.
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CNN answers: What's going on in Afghanistan?
Story highlights A group of fighters in Afghanistan is filmed by a CNN cameraman parading ISIS flags U.S. official: ISIS militants have "no military capability" at present, but are trying to recruit disillusioned Taliban in several areas Rivalry between ISIS and the Taliban in Afghanistan is fierce enough to mean the ISIS fighters could be killed for brandishing the flag
A group of fighters in Afghanistan agreed to be filmed by a CNN cameraman parading their ISIS flags in a valley not far to the south of Kabul, the Afghan capital. They are the first images of their kind shot by western media inside Afghanistan.
The rise of ISIS is an issue that the Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani, has termed a "terrible threat."
U.S. officials CNN has spoken to have voiced their concern about the potential for an ISIS presence.
One U.S. military officer said the militants currently have limited capability but are trying to recruit disillusioned Taliban in several areas around the country's east and south.
"There has been some very small numbers of recruitment that has happened," Colonel J B Vowell, told CNN.
"You have disaffected Taliban who are losing politically and some of the younger, newer fighters are moving to that camp. It doesn't mean it's operationally better. We are concerned about it -- resources, weapons, capabilities. (But) I don't see an operational effect."
In the valley, the men display their weapons, and practice high kicks. They are a little breathless at altitude, a little clumsy. They are all masked, all in military-style uniforms. Our cameraman described how locals seemed to keep their distance from them.
It is often said that rivalry between the nascent ISIS presence and the Taliban, who remain the big guns in Afghanistan, is fierce enough to mean the ISIS fighters could be killed for brandishing the flag.
But it is fatigue with the Taliban that appears to have provided fertile ground for their rise. One of them told CNN: "We established contacts with IS (another acronym for the group) through a friend who is in Helmand (in southern Afghanistan).