Taliban in a sentence

Tajikistan’s confrontationist approach makes it an enemy of the Taliban and target of frequent retributive attacks by the Taliban using cadres of the “Tajik Taliban,” a moniker for the affiliated anti-Tajikistan extremist group, Jamaat Ansarullah (JA).

According to the deal Washington signed with the Taliban, the Afghan government was to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners, and the Taliban were to free 1,000 government and military men.

Among 80 others, the Taliban are demanding the release of Anas Haqqani, the younger brother of Sirajuddin, deputy head of the Taliban and leader of the Haqqani network, often considered the strongest of the Taliban fighting in Afghanistan.

The Taliban team with whom the Trump administration has been negotiating includes five senior Taliban commanders — the “Taliban Five” — who were held at Guantanamo for 13 years before Obama freed them in exchange for U.S. Army deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

Iran is known to have provided training for the Taliban, offering sanctuary and support to Taliban commanders and helping the Taliban recruit among the Afghan refugee population in Iran.

Taliban and Northern Alliance era Following the rise of the Taliban and their capture of Kabul, Dostum aligned himself with the Northern Alliance (United Front) against the Taliban.

Arriving in 2010, nearly a decade into the war, the four-star applied a similar approach as in Iraq — an increase of forces that pushed into Taliban-controlled areas, working with local populations to gain support in countering the Taliban.

Kakar and the government in Islamabad accuse the Taliban of harboring militants from groups like the TTP — allegations thet the Taliban deny.

Pakistan has been pressuring the Taliban to shut down TTP camps in Afghanistan, where an estimated 6,000 fighters are located, since the Taliban takeover.

Pakistan has presented “irrefutable evidence” to the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan about the presence of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror outfit’s hideouts and precise location of its leadership in the war-torn nation.

Pakistan has witnessed rising attacks by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) since the Afghan Taliban retook Kabul in 2021, and police are increasingly on the frontline of Islamabad’s bid to quell the movement.

The Iranian delegation, headed by Javad Karimi-Ghodousi, met with Taliban Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul, Hafiz Zia Ahmad, Deputy Spokesman of Taliban's Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote on his X account.

The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has emboldened the Pakistani Taliban, who have stepped up attacks since November, when they ended a cease-fire with the government.

When the Taliban entered Baghlan on August 9, 2021, Omid said he did one last thing: He burned documents to keep the Taliban from identifying his staff.

Amid the fervor among Afghans, notably the younger Taliban generation, echoing anti-Pakistan sentiments and embracing Afghan nationalism, select Taliban figures have issued reassuring words.

An al Qaeda leader known as Hakim al Masri is “is responsible for the training camps and conducting suicide bomber training for TTP,” or the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, an ally of al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban.

As a prominent leader within the Haqqani Network, which has played a pivotal role in the Taliban’s rise, his elimination serves to destabilise the Taliban’s internal structure.

Baheer’s statement on X, was accompanied by a photo of Rehman in a meeting with Taliban authorities in Kabul, where the room was adorned with the white Taliban flag.

Experts say that while the Taliban do not have the military might to attack Pakistan, the Afghan Taliban could use unconventional means, including actively supporting anti-Pakistan militants, to respond if aggression from Islamabad grows.

Has China not been able to get the Taliban regime to stop supporting the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)?