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Bookmark or Share- U.S. Officials Meet With Taliban Again as Trump Pushes ...KABUL, Afghanistan — Seeking to inject new energy into the long-stalled Afghan peace process, the top American diplomat charged with helping find a way to end the war has met with Taliban ...
- Taliban - WikipediaEtymology. The word Taliban is Pashto, طالبان ṭālibān, meaning "students", the plural of ṭālib.This is a loanword from Arabic طالب ṭālib, using the Persian plural ending -ān ان.In Arabic طالبان ṭālibān means not "students" but "two students", as it is a dual form, the Arabic plural being طلاب ṭullāb—occasionally causing some confusion to Arabic speakers.
- Taliban | World | The GuardianThe Taliban have been blamed for a pair of rockets fired towards the presidential palace during a live broadcast by Ashraf Ghani to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha
- Taliban | Encyclopedia.comTaliban. BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Taliban is a radically militant Islamic movement that controlled some 90 percent of Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001. The Taliban emerged from their base in Kandahar in southwestern Afghanistan in reaction to the lawlessness caused by infighting between rival mujahideen forces in the wake of the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. The Taliban ’ s declared aims included the ...
- Taliban | political and religious faction, Afghanistan ...Taliban: 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. The faction took its name from its membership, which
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