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Aug 16, 2021 · CNN — Just last week, US intelligence analysts had predicted it would likely take several more weeks before Afghanistan’s civilian government in Kabul fell to Taliban fighters. In reality, it...
Aug 11, 2022 · Here is a look at the origin of the Taliban; how they managed to take over Afghanistan not once, but twice; what they did when they first took control and how they have ruled since seizing power...
Jan 19, 2023 · Backgrounder. The Taliban in Afghanistan. The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, twenty years after their ouster by U.S. troops. Under their harsh rule, they have cracked...
- Lindsay Maizland
Aug 16, 2021 · The Taliban — or "students" in English — are extremist Islamist militants who want to impose their strict interpretation of religious law on Afghanistan. The group has its origins in the US-backed mujahedin, fundamentalist Islamic guerilla fighters, who fought Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1970s and 1980s.
3 days ago · 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. Learn more about the Taliban in this article.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aug 17, 2021 · The Taliban is an extreme Islamic group, which ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. They say they are followers of Islam, but their beliefs are much more extreme than those of the majority of...
Oct 1, 2010 · The Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in 2021, two decades after being removed from power by a US-led military coalition. The hardline Islamist group advanced rapidly across the country ...
