Taliban - Wikipedia The Taliban, [a] which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, [78][79][b] is an Afghan political and militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism [8][9][82][83][84] It ruled approximately 75% of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, before it was overthr
Taliban | Definition, History, Facts | Britannica Taliban, ultraconservative political and religious faction that emerged in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s following the withdrawal of Soviet troops, the collapse of Afghanistan’s communist regime, and the subsequent breakdown in civil order
Who are the Taliban? - BBC News Within weeks, the Taliban were in control of all of Afghanistan - something they had not managed to do in their first stint in power between 1996 and 2001 The group had struck a deal with the
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Who are the Taliban? | Origins In August 2021, Taliban forces marched into Kabul, Afghanistan almost exactly 20 years after U S troops had driven them out While this has been perceived as a stunning defeat for the United States, this month historian Robert Crews gives us a primer on the victors
The Taliban in Afghanistan - Council on Foreign Relations Analysts are concerned that the Taliban could provide it with safe haven and allow it to launch international terrorist attacks from Afghan soil The Taliban are a predominantly Pashtun, Islamic
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National Counterterrorism Center | Groups - DNI The Taliban is a Sunni Islamist nationalist and pro-Pashtun movement founded in the early 1990s that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until October 2001 The movement’s founding nucleus—the word “Taliban” is Pashto for “students”—was composed of peasant farmers and men studying Islam in Afghan and Pakistani madrasas, or religious schools
Taliban summary | Britannica Following the Soviet Union’s 1989 withdrawal from Afghanistan (see Afghan Wars), the Taliban (Persian: “Students”)—whose name refers to the Islamic religious students who formed the group’s main recruits—arose as a popular reaction to the chaos that gripped the country