Gun-toting Taliban mingle with families and kids at Kabul Zoo

Armed with AK-47s and M16 assault rifles, Taliban fighters visited the Kabul zoo and mingled with families and kids.

Taliban soldiers cradling AK-47s and M16 assault rifles mingle among families at Kabul Zoo, a novelty experience for many of the young fighters from rural Afghanistan.

As visitors set up picnic spots in the shaded grounds, enjoying ice creams and salted pomegranate seeds, heavily armed Taliban gunmen peer into the enclosures housing lions, leopards, camels, wolves, ostriches and macaques.