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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The Islamic State–Taliban conflict is an ongoing insurgency by the Islamic State Khorasan Province (IS-KP) against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The...
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This is a list of Taliban leaders during the insurgency from 2001 to 2021. Quetta Shura "Taliban conflict: Afghanistan probes Mullah Omar 'death' claim"...
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majority of the Taliban are Pashtuns. However, these ethnic differences became less pronounced in course of the Taliban insurgency, as the Taliban began to recruit...
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coalition forces, after 20 years of Taliban insurgency, and now controls the entire country. The Taliban government is not recognized by any country and...
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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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following a US withdrawal, which allowed for the Taliban insurgency, ultimately leading to the Taliban takeover of Kabul on 15 August 2021. The agreement...
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Supreme Leader of Afghanistan (redirect from Taliban leader)
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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War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (redirect from War against the Taliban)
were launched. By 2003, the Taliban had reorganized under their founder, Mullah Omar, and began a widespread insurgency against the new Afghan government...
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Leadership Council of Afghanistan (redirect from Taliban's Quetta Shura)
Taliban insurgency from Quetta, Pakistan, which led to it being informally referred to as the Quetta Shura at the time. During the Taliban insurgency...
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Hamid Karzai (section Views on Taliban)
called the Taliban his brothers and warned that the heavy-handed counterinsurgency in Afghanistan would only revive the Taliban insurgency against the...
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The insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, also known as the War in North-West Pakistan or Pakistan's war on terror, is an ongoing armed conflict involving...
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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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anti-insurgency operations continued against the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State from 2017 to 2021 2021 Taliban offensive, the Taliban conquest...
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Hibatullah Akhundzada (category Taliban leaders)
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 in that...
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Afghanistan (redirect from Taliban Afghanistan)
fighting between the Taliban and the local branch of the Islamic State, as well as an anti-Taliban Republican insurgency. The Taliban government is led by...
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Afghan conflict (category Wars involving the Taliban)
group attacked the Taliban as well as NATO troops, but primarily targeted civilians. The insurgency is ongoing. Republican insurgency in Afghanistan (2021–present):...
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insurgent or insurgency in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Insurgent, insurgents or insurgency can refer to: The act of insurgency Iraqi insurgency,...
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deprived the ANSF of a critical edge in fighting the Taliban insurgency, leading to the Taliban takeover of Kabul. Following the September 11 attacks...
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History of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (section Taliban Emirate vs. Northern Alliance (1996–2001))
enlist local militia fighters to bolster opposition to the Taliban insurgency. In June, the Taliban intensified attacks around the Northern city of Kunduz...
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Jalaluddin Haqqani (category Taliban leaders)
fighter" during the Soviet–Afghan War. By 2004, he was directing pro-Taliban insurgent group to launch a holy war in Afghanistan. In 2016, U.S. Lieutenant...
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has been difficult to obtain in recent times, especially under the new Taliban-led Afghan government. Earlier Christians in Afghanistan were members of...
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sparked a resurgence of the Taliban insurgency and marked the most significant escalation of the war in Afghanistan since the Taliban regime was overthrown...
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invasion in 2001, the Taliban were ousted from power but regrouped and launched an insurgency that lasted two decades. The Taliban returned to power in...
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Operation Enduring Freedom (section Taliban)
the Taliban from power and seriously crippled al-Qaeda and associated militants in Afghanistan. However, success in quelling the Taliban insurgency since...
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The Badri 313 Battalion first emerged in the late stages of the Taliban insurgency, notably taking part in an attack on British security company G4S's...
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Helmand province campaign (category Taliban activities)
presidential elections and turning the tide of the insurgency there. In 2006, a revitalised Taliban conducted a number of large-scale military offensives...
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its attack on Afghanistan, launching bombs and cruise missiles against Taliban military and communications facilities and suspected terrorist training...
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Akhtar Mansour (category Taliban government ministers of Afghanistan)
Mohammad Mansour (1960s – 21 May 2016) was the second supreme leader of the Taliban. Succeeding the founding leader, Mullah Omar, he was the supreme leader...
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by the Taliban. The council had been established to facilitate peace talks between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban insurgents. Abdullah...
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