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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Sunni fundamentalist movement begun in Afghanistan, Pashto plural of Arabic tālib "student;" so called because it originated among students in Pakistani religious schools. Group formed c.1993. Often incorrectly treated as singular in English.
Wikipedia
The Taliban ( "students"), alternatively spelled Taleban, is an Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan currently waging war (an insurgency, or jihad) within that country. From 1996 to 2001, it held power in Afghanistan and enforced a strict interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law, of which the international community and leading Muslims have been highly critical. Until his death in 2013, Mullah Mohammed Omar was the supreme commander and spiritual leader of the Taliban. Mullah Akhtar Mansour was elected as his replacement in 2015,
- Mullah Omar: Taliban choose deputy Mansour as successor, BBC News, July 30, 2015 and following Mansour's killing in a May 2016 U.S. drone strike, Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada became the group's leader.
The Taliban emerged in 1994 as one of the prominent factions in the Afghan Civil War, and largely consisted of students recently trained in madrassas in Pakistan. Under the leadership of Mohammed Omar, the movement spread throughout most of Afghanistan, sequestering power from the Mujahideen warlords, whose corruption and despotism Afghans had tired of. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was established in 1996 and the Afghan capital transferred to Kandahar. It held control of most of the country until being overthrown by the American-led invasion of Afghanistan in December 2001 following the September 11 attacks. At its peak, formal diplomatic recognition of the Taliban's government was acknowledged by only three nations: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The group later regrouped as an insurgency movement to fight the American-backed Karzai administration and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
The Taliban have been condemned internationally for the harsh enforcement of their interpretation of Islamic Sharia law, which has resulted in the brutal treatment of many Afghans, especially women.
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During their rule from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban and their allies committed massacres against Afghan civilians, denied UN food supplies to 160,000 starving civilians and conducted a policy of scorched earth, burning vast areas of fertile land and destroying tens of thousands of homes. In its post-9/11 insurgency, the group has been accused of using terrorism as a specific tactic to further their ideological and political goals. According to the United Nations, the Taliban and their allies were responsible for 76% of Afghan civilian casualties in 2010, 80% in 2011, and 80% in 2012.
The Taliban's ideology has been described as anti-modern, combining an "innovative form" of sharia Islamic law based on Deobandi fundamentalism and the militant Islamism and Salafi jihadism of Osama bin Laden, with Pashtun social and cultural norms known as Pashtunwali, as most Taliban are Pashtun tribesmen.
The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence and military are widely alleged by the international community to have provided support to the Taliban during their founding and time in power, and of continuing to support the Taliban during the insurgency. Pakistan states that it dropped all support for the group after the September 11 attacks. Al-Qaeda also supported the Taliban with fighters from Arab countries and Central Asia. Saudi Arabia provided financial support. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee to United Front-controlled territory, Pakistan, and Iran.
Usage examples of "taliban".
INC and its American supporters, since the fall of the Taliban, some of its advocates have divorced the idea from the need to back the INC as the primary opposition group.
This view has gained a modest amount of currency because it fits the popular impression of how the United States won the war in Afghanistan and because there are those who assume that because Saddam is even more despicable than the Taliban, the Iraqis will be even quicker than the Afghans to throw off his yoke if they see the United States firmly committed to this course of action.
When the Taliban first entered Afghanistan in 1994, they were unlike anything the other Afghans had seen.
Taliban first entered Afghanistan in 1994, they were unlike anything the other Afghans had seen.
I confess that I did not expect the Taliban to collapse as suddenly as it did, but neither did anyone else, including the Pentagon, the intelligence community, and all of the people now claiming that we should employ the Afghan model in Iraq.
Finally, over time, Russia, India, and Iran all began providing degrees of support to the Northern Alliance, not on the level of Pakistani support to the Taliban, but to a degree that nonetheless helped them to stand up to the Taliban.
At the time, they were backing several different Afghan militias, but when the Taliban appeared and began to win battles, Islamabad was quick to embrace them as their new Afghan proxies.
In truth, this is not a fair comparison because the Iraqi armed forces in 1991 were more than two hundred times as large as the Taliban in 2001, so any military effort against Iraq would invariably have been much bigger and more costly, but proponents of the Afghan Approach still argue that the absence of large U.
Ideally, a combination of manned aircraft, cruise missiles and special-forces operations would be used in a sustained campaign to destroy the Al Qaeda infrastructure in Afghanistan, hunt down Al Qaeda personnel there, and destroy Taliban military capabilities.
And while traitors like the Taliban Rat Boy from un-Fairfax, California provide an interesting freak show for the sheeple, we cannot afford to overlook what the Rats and their internal terrorist movement is doing to sabotage our homeland.
Although the strategy was first conceived by the INC and its American supporters, since the fall of the Taliban, some of its advocates have divorced the idea from the need to back the INC as the primary opposition group.
They armed and trained the Taliban and provided considerable support in the form of logistics, communications, intelligence, airlift, fire support, and combat advisers.
As a result, the Taliban lost an important source of supplies, airlift, ground transportation, intelligence, and even command and control.
The lessons of Bosnia and Kosovo also played an important role in guiding the United Nations and international organizations after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, although there the scope of the effort has been quite different.
Assuming the Taliban chooses not to hand over bin Laden and his associates, the U.