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Afghanistan: What Obama Should Do Next and Why Your Opinion Matters...strategic covert efforts to track down and eradicate al-Qaeda strongholds makes sense. As for the Taliban, it's worth noting that the Taliban has never launched attacks outside the borders of Afghanistan. Their conflict is ethnic warfare... In this article: Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, United States, Dalai Lama, The Pentagon, and Vietnam |
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Telegraph.co.uk - International news | 9 hours ago
Afghan governor turned 3000 men over to Taliban
...stopped paying for the people who supported me," he said. "I sent 3,000 of them off to the Taliban because I could not afford to support them but the Taliban was making payments. "Lots of people, including my family members, went back to...
In this article: British Army, NATO, Opium, Sher Mohammed Akhundzada, and Allegation
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New Kerala | 17 hours ago
Catastrophe in the world if Taliban triumphs: PM
...forces, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has warned of 'catastrophic consequences for the world, particularly for South Asia' if the Taliban triumphed. "I hope the US and the global community will stay involved in Afghanistan. A victory for...
In this article: Afghanistan, Manmohan Singh, US, Hamid Karzai, Pakistan, Al Qaeda, South Asia, Democracy, and Ideology
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Afghan village armies fight Taliban
...residents say the Taliban has set up "shadow governments" in areas of the province. "In Chahar Dara the Taliban have a government, they are helping the people settle disputes, they collect taxes from the people," Nematullah, who lives in...
In this article: Kunduz, NATO, Afghanistan, Tax, and Unemployment
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
Afghans say poverty, not Taliban, main cause of war
KABUL (Reuters) - Most Afghans see not Taliban militants but poverty, unemployment and government corruption as the main causes of war in their country, according to a report by a leading aid group released on Wednesday. After three...
In this article: Poverty, Afghanistan, Unemployment, Respondent, Taliban insurgency, Oxfam, U.S., and Barack Obama
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Pakistani army shows off captured Taliban posts
SARAROGHA, PAKISTAN -- A toy car booby-trapped with explosives, chemistry textbooks and handwritten case files from a Taliban court were among the debris left behind by fleeing Islamist militants in this remote village in the conflicted...
In this article: Pakistani army, Pakistan, United States, James L. Jones, Athar Abbas, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Defense Department, and CIA
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Pakistan seizes main Taliban bases
...for how to turn an intensifying insurgency in Afghanistan, has welcomed the offensive but is keen to see Pakistan tackle Afghan Taliban factions based in lawless enclaves along the border. Chief military spokesman Major General Athar...
In this article: Athar Abbas, Pakistan, Swat valley, United States, Pakistani army, and Barack Obama
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AP Online | 3 days ago
Afghan official: Attack underscores Taliban threat
...in a rocket attack presumably aimed at military officials and local leaders underscores the inability of NATO to successfully defeat the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday. Monday's attack in Tagab missed the...
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U.S. raises pressure on Pakistan over Taliban, al Qaeda
...how to turn around deteriorating security in Afghanistan, has welcomed the offensive but is also keen to see Pakistan tackle Afghan Taliban factions in lawless enclaves along the border. U.S. President Barack Obama is expected in the coming...
In this article: Pakistan, United States, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, James Jones, Afghanistan, Pakistan Army, Peshawar, and Liaquat Ali Khan
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Pakistan: Militants attack 2 anti-Taliban figures
...personnel in the last month in retaliation for an army offensive launched in the tribal area of South Waziristan, where al-Qaida and Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding. The government has supplemented its military campaigns by...
In this article: Pakistan, Peshawar, Al-qaida, Suicide, Islamic University, and Islamabad
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The Taliban (طالبان ', meaning "students"), also Taleban, is a radical Sunni Islamist movement that governed Afghanistan from 1996 until late 2001, when all of its members were removed from power by NATO forces during Operation Enduring Freedom. It has regrouped since 2004 and revived as a strong insurgency movement governing at the local level and fighting a guerrilla war against the governments of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
The movement is made up of members belonging to different ethnic Pashtun tribes, along with a number of volunteers from nearby Islamic countries such as Uzbeks, Tajiks, Chechens, Arabs, Punjabis and others. They operate in Afghanistan and the Frontier Tribal Areas of Pakistan, mainly around the Durand Line border.
The Taliban movement is headed by Mullah Mohammed Omar, who is still in hiding. Mullah Omar's original commanders were "a mixture of former small-unit military commanders and madrasah teachers," and the rank and file made up mostly of Afghan refugees who had studied at Islamic religious schools in Pakistan. The Taliban received valuable training, supplies and arms from the Pakistani government, particularly the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and many recruits from madrasahs for Afghan refugees in Pakistan, primarily ones established by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI).
- Name:
- طالبان
- Location:
- Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Years Active:
- September 1994
- Opponents:
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- Military of Pakistan
- Operation Enduring Freedom Allies
- Military of Afghanistan
- British Armed Forces
- United States Armed Forces
- ISAF (led by NATO)
- Alliances:
- Ideology:
- Islamic fundamentalism
- Participant In:
- the Civil war in Afghanistan, the War in Afghanistan (2001–present) and the Waziristan War
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