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The Taliban (Pashto: طالبان ṭālibān, also anglicised as Taleban; translation: "students") is a Sunni Islamist, predominately Pashtun movement that governed Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, when its leaders were removed from power by Northern Alliance and NATO forces. It has regrouped and since 2004 revived as a strong insurgency movement... Full Article
Taliban fighters arrive to surrender their weapons as they join Afghan government forces during a ceremony in Herat province on February 13, 2012. Nineteen fighters including Taliban district governor, Said Zia, left the Taliban to join government forces in western Afghanistan.
View Photo »Three Taliban fighters and two teenage would-be suicide attackers are presented to media representatives with seized weapons in Kandahar on February 12, 2012. Two ten-year-olds who were pardoned by Afghan President around six months ago were caught again in Kandahar for planing to...
View Photo »An International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldier watches as Afghan men play cards during the opening ceremony of a clinic for war victims in Zharai district of Kandahar province on February 9, 2012. The civil war in the Central Asian nation, which followed the Afghan defeat to...
View Photo »This October 14, 2011 file photograph shows Afghan sightseers as they walk past burqa-clad women at the Band-e-Qargha Gulestan Park in Kabul. On February 10, 2012 a report showed that as tentative steps are made towards peace talks between the United States and Taliban insurgents,...
View Photo »This May 25, 2011 file photograph shows burqa-clad Afghan women as they walk through a graveyard in the old section of Kabul. On February 10, 2012 a report showed that as tentative steps are made towards peace talks between the United States and Taliban insurgents, Afghan women are...
View Photo »Pakistani men carry carpets through the streets in Badkhhala, in Pakistan's Swat Valley where the Pakistani military has driven out the Taliban, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012.
View Photo »Pakistani children carry water pots up a steep stone staircase in Badkhhala, in Pakistan's Swat valley where the Pakistani military has driven out the Taliban, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012.
View Photo »A Pakistani man talks to his son as they sit in front their tent selling oranges outside the town of Badkhhala, in Pakistan's Swat Valley, where the Pakistani military has driven out the Taliban, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012.
View Photo »Pakistani paramedics give treatment to an injured blast victim at a hospital in the northwestern district of Upper Dir near the Afghan border on February 16, 2012 A suicide bomber targeted Pakistani volunteers in a pro-government militia, killing one person and wounding at least three others...
View Photo »A Pakistani internally displaced person (IDP) girl looks through a gap in hessian at a camp in Swabi on May 24, 2009. Pakistan's military said May 24 it had seized several key areas in the Swat valley's Taliban-held main town, as their battle to regain control of the northwest entered...
View Photo »Two burqa-clad Afghan women beggars share a mid-day break in Kandahar on February 7, 2012. The civil war in the Central Asian nation, which followed the Afghan defeat to Soviet occupiers, ruined once-beautiful Afghanistan and left up to 80,000 people dead. It ended with the 1996...
View Photo »An Afghan man with two children begs at a roadside in Kandahar on February 1, 2012. The volatile southern city is the birthplace of the Taliban movement, which has been waging bloody battle for a return to power since its ouster in a US-led invasion in late 2001 in the wake of the 9/11...
View Photo »Former Taliban militants with gowns hold copies of Islam's holy book "Quran" which were given by Afghan officials during a joining ceremony with the Afghan government in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday Jan. 30, 2012. Mullah Abdullah, not picturreed, a Taliban militant...
View Photo »Former Taliban militants hold their weapons during a joining ceremony with the Afghan government in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday Jan. 30, 2012. Mullah Abdullah, not pictured, a Taliban militant commander from Herat province joined with Afghan government along with his 30...
View Photo »Taliban militants hand over their weapons after joining the Afghan government's reconciliation and reintegration program, in Herat January 30, 2012. Some thirty Afghan Taliban have joined the program, Herat governor Daoud Shah said.
View Photo »A Taliban militant poses for a picture after joining the Afghan government's reconciliation and reintegration program, in Herat January 30, 2012. Some thirty Afghan Taliban have joined the program, Herat governor Daoud Shah said.
View Photo »In this picture taken on January 29, 2012 a Taliban fighter jumps from a police vehicle with his weapon after he joined Afghan government forces during a ceremony in Herat province. Thirty fighters left the Taliban to join government forces in western Afghanistan. The Taliban, ousted...
View Photo »In this picture taken on January 29, 2012 Taliban fighters walk with their weapons after they joined Afghan government forces during a ceremony in Herat province. Thirty fighters left the Taliban to join government forces in western Afghanistan. The Taliban, ousted from power by a...
View Photo »Taliban fighters stand with their weapons as they hold the Muslim holy book Koran after they joined Afghan government forces during a ceremony in Herat province on January 30, 2012. Thirty fighters left the Taliban to join government forces in western Afghanistan. The Taliban, ousted...
View Photo »Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari (C) speak during a joint press conference with Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) at the Presidential Palace in Islamabad on February 17, 2012. Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for action rather...
View Photo »Afghan commando soldiers disclose the faces of detained Taliban militants during a news event in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. 15 Taliban militants were killed and six more were arrested during a joint operation of NATO - led forces and Afghan commando...
View Photo »Afghan National Army (ANA) commandos present blindfolded Taliban fighters to the media in Herat on January 29, 2012. ANA commandos captured six Taliban fighters after an operation in the outskirts of Herat on January 29.
View Photo »Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends a meeting with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at the Prime Minister House in Islamabad on February 16, 2012. Pakistan on February 16 welcomed the leaders of Afghanistan and Iran for a regional summit at a key juncture in peace...
View Photo »Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (R) shakes hands with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad upon his arrival at the Prime Minister House in Islamabad on February 16, 2012. Pakistan on February 16 welcomed the leaders of Afghanistan and Iran for a regional summit at a key...
View Photo »Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) listens to Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (R) during a meeting at the Prime Minister House in Islamabad on February 16, 2012. Pakistan on February 16 welcomed the leaders of Afghanistan and Iran for a regional summit at a key...
View Photo »Taliban fighters arrive to surrender their weapons as they join Afghan government forces during a ceremony in Herat province on February 13, 2012. Nineteen fighters including Taliban district governor, Said Zia, left the Taliban to join government forces in western Afghanistan.
View Photo »The Taliban ruthlessly cut down more than 80% of the forests when they controlled Swat. The illegal cutting by Taliban not only caused environmental degradation but also deprived the local population of an economic lifeline
The Taliban ruthlessly cut down more than 80% of the forests when they controlled Swat. The illegal cutting by Taliban not only caused environmental degradation but also deprived the local population of an economic lifeline
In the course of this year, there have been peace talks with the Taliban and our own countrymen. Peace talks have started with them already and it is going well. Foreign militaries, especially the United States of America, are going ahead with these negotiations.
Nearly all the forested areas have been mercilessly stripped of trees but the Swat in particular has borne the brunt of the Taliban's atrocities over the last two years
He was shot by the Taliban as we talked on the telephone.
The Taliban finance their movement by (extracting timber) or imposing harsh taxes on the transportation of marbles from the northern Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)
The government is responsible for protecting these forests but it has no authority to stop the Taliban from the ruthless laceration that has deprived 80,000 people of royalties from the sustainable sale of trees
I think we are making tremendous progress, this is exactly what our nation should be doing. I think we are pushing back the Taliban, we are trying to stabilize this nation ... I think the work here by Task Force Spartan is nothing short of outstanding.
After Pakistan expressed readiness, the Afghan government has also agreed to resume the talks with Pakistan over the Taliban
We don’t negotiate from a position of weakness as we are pulling our troops out ... We should not negotiate with the Taliban. We should defeat the Taliban.
The right course for America is not to negotiate with the Taliban while the Taliban are killing our soldiers
Taliban are people who want -- their main goal is to keep foreigners off their land. It's the al-Qaida -- you can't mix the two. The al-Qaida want to come here to kill us. The Taliban just says we don't want foreigners. We need to understand that or we can't resolve this problem in the Middle East.
we should kill the Taliban.
Taliban deserve no respect, dignity
The U.S. should slow down the Afghan withdrawal process to allow U.S. and NATO commanders on the ground more time to consolidate gains ... and to ensure that Afghan forces are sufficiently ready to take control of the nation's security ... A precipitous U.S. withdrawal could lead to civil war or the Tal...
Taliban is killing Americans. This President has done an extraordinary thing. He announced the date of our withdrawal. He announced the date of the withdrawal of our surge forces based upon a political calendar, not the calendar that the commanders on the ground said it was based for our mission. That w...
The al-Qaeda wants to come here to kill us. The Taliban just says we don't want foreigners. We need to understand that
We should not negotiate with the Taliban. We should defeat the Taliban
Taliban used to be our allies when we were fighting the Russians. So Taliban are people who want... their main goal is to keep foreigners off their land. It's the al-Qaeda... you can't mix the two
Before 95 per cent of the people here were friends of the Taliban — now 95 per cent of them support the government. Those insurgents who want to create problems for the people of Panjwaii cannot come back.
You can tell Mullah Omar (the Taliban leader), if there is anyone here who wants to fight us, bring it on
Ansar al Sharia is pulling in allied Islamist groups and sympathetic tribes into its orbit, and seeks to implement an Islamic State much like the Taliban did in Afghanistan and al Qaeda attempted in Iraq
The Marines videotaped urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters have at least one defender — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a GOP presidential contender ... Perry yesterday said that the four Marines in the Afghanistan war-zone video were just ‘kids’ and that the real outrage was the ‘over-the-top’ rhetoric...
want to be hedged for complete disaster – World War III…. Eventually, we will have a war, big time. Maybe you don't have divisions of tanks facing each other, but it should be clear that China is an active supporter of North Korea and the Taliban. And now with the US endorsing a seat for India on the UN...
Each person that we win over, the philosophy is that's one less insurgent, one less person in the Taliban
