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Taliban Radical Sunni political movement in Afghanistan. In 1996, from their headquarters in Kandahar, sw Afghanistan, Taliban militia launched themselves on Afghan society, vowing to spread Sharia (Islamic law) throughout the country. They soon captured Kabul. Taliban's philosophy is drawn from extremist theologians in Pakistan and other Arab countries.

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Taliban a fundamentalist Muslim movement which in 1996 set up an Islamic state in Afghanistan. The Taliban were overthrown in 2001 by US-led forces and Afghan groups following the terrorist attacks of 11 September. The name comes from Pashto or Dari, from Persian, literally ‘students, seekers of knowledge’.

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