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Bookmark or Share- Critics of US-Taliban deal say militants can't be trusted ...The Taliban committed to reducing violence, cutting ties with al-Qaida and sitting down with other Afghans to craft a political road map for their country's future. The Taliban have pledged to ...
- US envoy forges ahead with troubled Taliban peace dealThe biggest hurdle has been the release of prisoners. The peace deal called for the Afghan government to free 5,000 Taliban prisoners in exchange for the Taliban releasing 1,000 government personnel. So far, the government has freed 4,015 and the Taliban has freed 669, according to the Afghan government..
- Taliban - WikipediaThe Taliban (Pashto: طالبان , ṭālibān "students") or Taleban, who refer to themselves as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), are a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement and military organization in Afghanistan currently waging war (an insurgency, or jihad) within that country.
- History of the Taliban: Who They Are, What They WantThe Taliban—from the Arabic word for "student," Talib—are fundamentalist Sunni Muslims, mostly from Afghanistan’s Pashtun tribes.
- Who are the Taliban? - BBC NewsThe Taliban, or "students" in the Pashto language, emerged in the early 1990s in northern Pakistan following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. It is believed that the predominantly...
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