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    The Taliban (/ˈtælɪbæn, ˈtɑːlɪbɑːn/; Pashto: طَالِبَانْ, romanized: ṭālibān, lit. 'students'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic...
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    war on terror; toppling the Taliban-ruled Islamic Emirate and establishing the Islamic Republic three years later. The Taliban and its allies were expelled...
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    Pakistani Taliban (Urdu: پاکستانی طالبان), formally called the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (تحریکِ طالبان پاکستان, lit. 'Pakistani Taliban Movement'...
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    the 2001–2021 war. In September 2021 the Taliban re-established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The Taliban government remains internationally unrecognized...
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    The Islamic State–Taliban conflict is an ongoing armed conflict between the Islamic State Khorasan Province (IS-KP) and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan...
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    The 2021 Taliban offensive was a military offensive by the Taliban insurgent group and allied militants that led to the fall of the Kabul-based Islamic...
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    side, and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the state controlled by the Taliban) on the other side. On 17 August 2021, former first vice president of Afghanistan...
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    totalitarian Islamic state led by the Taliban that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. At its peak, the Taliban government controlled approximately...
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    The Taliban insurgency began after the group's fall from power during the 2001 War in Afghanistan. The Taliban forces fought against the Afghan government...
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    This is a timeline of the background of the history of the Taliban. It details the Taliban movement's origin in Pashtun nationalism, and briefly relates...
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    during the Taliban insurgency on 25 May 2016, upon being chosen by the Leadership Council, and came to power on 15 August 2021 with the Taliban's victory...
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  • Hibatullah Akhundzada (category Taliban leaders)
    courts of the 1996–2001 Taliban government. He was chosen to lead the Taliban’s shadow court system at the start of the Taliban insurgency, and remained...
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    known as the United States–Taliban deal or the Doha Accord, was a peace agreement signed by the United States and the Taliban on 29 February 2020 in Doha...
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    بیرغ; Dari: پرچم افغانستان), adopted on 15 August 2021 following the Taliban's victory in the 2001–2021 war, features a white field with a black Shahada...
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  • up Taliban or Taliban in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Taliban is an Afghan Islamist militant organisation. Taliban may also refer to: Taliban (gang)...
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  • Mullah Omar (category Taliban founders)
    was an Afghan militant leader and founder of the Taliban. During the Third Afghan Civil War, the Taliban fought the Northern Alliance and took control of...
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  • The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a memoir by U.S. journalist Kim Barker about her experiences reporting in Pakistan and...
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    partially recognized Taliban-ruled Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. However, on 15 August 2021, the country was recaptured by the Taliban, which marked the...
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  • Thumbnail for Afghan Civil War (1996–2001)
    War, also known as the Third Afghan Civil War, took place between the Taliban's conquest of Kabul and their establishing of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan...
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    of the war on terror and subsequently led a multinational invasion of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. The stated goal was to dismantle al-Qaeda, which had...
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    been a deputy leader of the Taliban since 2015, and was additionally appointed to his ministerial role after the Taliban's victory over Western-backed...
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    Afghanistan's (Taliban) takeover of Kabul, The United Front was reassembled. The Northern Alliance fought a defensive war against the Taliban regime. They...
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    The treatment of women by the Taliban refers to actions and policies by various Taliban regimes which are either specific or highly commented upon, mostly...
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    Kandahar in an uprising against the Taliban; he became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001. During the December...
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  • other anti-Taliban fighters loyal to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The founder and president of NRF is Ahmad Massoud. When the Taliban captured Afghanistan...
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  • The Taliban is a militant Islamist organisation, which has ruled Afghanistan under a theocratic emirate several times in the last 30 years. In August...
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    Senior leaders of the Afghan Taliban have been stationed in Doha, Qatar, since the early 2010s. The original purpose for being there was to open an office...
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  • John Requa and written by Robert Carlock. It is based on the memoir The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker. The film...
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    The Punjabi Taliban (Punjabi: پنجابی طالبان), formally called the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Punjab (تحریکِ طالبان پنجاب), was an illegal Islamist group in Pakistan...
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  • Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (category Works about the Taliban)
    Beret master sergeant, and Ahmed, his Afghan interpreter, fighting the Taliban. The film was theatrically released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and STXfilms...
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