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History
US withdrawalNear seizure of the capital KabulPresidential PalaceAshraf GhaniUAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
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Background
Intervened and occupied AfghanistanSoviet–Afghan WarHezb-i Islami KhalisHarakat-i Inqilab-e IslamiMuhammad Zia-ul-Haq
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Ideology and aims
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Condemned practices
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- Founders
- Abdul Ghani Baradar
- Headquarters
- Kandahar (1994–2001; 2021–present)
- Active regions
- Afghanistan
- Dates active
- 1994–1996 (militia) · 1996–2001 (1st government) · 2001–2021 (insurgency) · 2021–present (2nd government)
- Deliberative body
- Leadership Council
- Groups
- Primarily Pashtuns; minority Tajiks and Uzbeks
Topics to explore
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Overview
- Afghanistan
- Deobandi movement
- Islamic fundamentalism
- Pashtun nationalism
- Supreme leader Supreme Leader of Afghanistan
- Fatwas Fatwa
- First Taliban rule Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)
- American invasion of Afghanistan United States invasion of Afghanistan
- September 11 attacks
- Al-Qaeda
- A 20-year insurgency Taliban insurgency
- Coalition forces Resolute Support Mission
- Recaptured Kabul Fall of Kabul (2021)
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Human rights Human rights in Afghanistan
- Women Women in Afghanistan
- Education Education in Afghanistan
- Ethnic minorities Ethnic groups in Afghanistan
- Largely unrecognized Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
- Second Afghan Civil War Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)
- Pashtun Pashtuns
- Mullah Omar
- Islamic State of Afghanistan
- Mujahideen Afghan mujahideen
- First Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
- Northern Alliance
- Sharia
- Music Music of Afghanistan
- NATO
- International Security Assistance Force
Etymology
- Ṭālib Talibe
- Loanword
- Dual Dual (grammatical number)
- John Walker Lindh
- American English
- Definite article
- Pakistani Pakistani English
- Indian English
- Pakistani Taliban
- Determiner Determiner (linguistics)
Background
- Intervened and occupied Afghanistan Afghan conflict
- Soviet–Afghan War
- Hezb-i Islami Khalis
- Harakat-i Inqilab-e Islami
- Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
- Balochistan Balochistan, Pakistan
- Akhtar Abdur Rahman
- CIA Central Intelligence Agency
- General Intelligence Directorate General Intelligence Directorate (Saudi Arabia)
- Inter-Service Intelligence Agency Inter-Services Intelligence
- Soviet-backed régime Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
- Mohammad Najibullah
- Peshawar Accord
- Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
- Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin
- Ittihad-i Islami
- Kabul
- Abdul Ali Mazari
- Ahmad Shah Massoud
- Sibghatullah Mojaddedi
- Burhanuddin Rabbani
- Ismail Khan
- Gul Agha Sherzai
History
- US withdrawal Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2020–2021)
- Near seizure of the capital Kabul Battle of Kabul (2021)
- Presidential Palace Arg (Kabul)
- Ashraf Ghani
- UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (United Arab Emirates)
- Amrullah Saleh
- Ahmad Massoud
- Bismillah Khan Mohammadi
- Chinese Communist Revolution
- Iranian Revolution
- Jon Lee Anderson
- Against images and iconography Aniconism in Islam
- Ministry of Women's Affairs Ministry of Women's Affairs (Afghanistan)
- Gender equity Gender equality
- Tokenistic Tokenism
- Tajik Tajiks in Afghanistan
- Displaced Forced displacement
- Extrajudicial executions Extrajudicial execution
- Human Rights Watch
- Forcibly disappeared Enforced disappearance
- Ambassador to the United Nations Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations
- Suhail Shaheen
- Embedded Embedded journalism
- Sakhi Shrine in Kabul Blue Mosque, Kabul
- Islamic State
- In Kunduz 2021 Kunduz mosque bombing
- Kandahar 2021 Kandahar bombing
- Sticky bomb Improvised explosive device
- Iran 2021 Afghanistan–Iran clashes
- Pakistan Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes
Ideology and aims
- Far-right
- Left–right political spectrum
- Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
- Islamism
- Anti-Soviet mujahideen rulers Afghan mujahidin
- Sayyid Qutb
- Ahmed Rashid
- Grand Mufti
- Rashid Ahmed Ludhianvi
- Abul A'la Maududi
- Jamaat-e-Islami
- Hanafi
- School of Islamic jurisprudence Fiqh
- Salafists Salafi movement
- Madrasas Madrasa
- Qur'an
- Fundamentalism
- Prophet Prophet Mohammed
- Ulema
- Dost Mohammed Khan
- Sikh
- Peshawar
- Zakat
- Kharijites
- Sunni Sunni Islam
- Takfir
- Unbelievers Kafir
- Abdul Manan Niazi
- Carter Malkasian
Condemned practices
- Scorched earth
- Daf
- Frame drum
- Whipped Flagellation
- Executed Public execution
- Cultural genocide
- Civilian casualties Civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- Narcotics Narcotic
- Massacres Massacre
- 055 Brigade
- World Food Programme
- Ethnic cleansing
- Ten Iranian diplomats 1998 killing of Iranian diplomats in Afghanistan
- Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
- Shomali Plains
- War crimes War crime
- Istalif
- Bamian
- Yakaolang
- Sex slavery
- Tajik Tajiks
- Uzbek Uzbeks
- House arrest
- Brutal repression of women Taliban treatment of women
- Ghazi Stadium
- Richard Kemp
- Hamas
- Gaza Gaza Strip
- Hindus Hinduism in Afghanistan
- Sikhs Sikhism in Afghanistan
Leadership and organization
Economic activities
- Afghanis Afghan afghani
- Golden Crescent
- Kafirs
- Wahidullah Sabawoon
- Poppy
- Kunar Province
- Paktya Loya Paktia
- Afghan Interim Administration
- Bill Clinton
- Ariana Afghan Airlines
- D.C. District Court United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- Gold Star families Gold Star Families for Peace
- Qosh Tepa Canal
- Afghan Armed Forces
International relations
- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
- Policy Foreign policy
- Isolationism
- Governance
- Mohammad Hassan Akhund Hasan Akhund
- Permanent Representative
- UN Credentials Committee United Nations Credentials Committee
- Sputnik Sputnik (news agency)
- Israel
- Asian Asia
- Moscow
- Central Asia
- Soviet Central Asian Soviet Central Asia
- Oslo
- Human rights
- Nigel Casey
- EU Special Representative European Union Special Representative
- Norwegian foreign ministry Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway)
- Afghan Foreign Minister
- Jonas Gahr Støre
- Diplomatic credentials Letter of credence
- Vladimir Putin
- 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference
- Fall of the Assad regime
- Syrian opposition Syrian opposition to Bashar al-Assad
- Supreme court Supreme Court of Russia
- Argentina
- Bahrain
- Canada
- Japan
In popular media
- Film adaption The Kite Runner (film)
- Lone Survivor
- Hindi cinema
- Kabul Express
- Escape from Taliban
- Sushmita Banerjee
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Map overview Semantic statistics
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Nodes379
Edges378
Triples602
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005277
Components1
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Taliban
Top relations
related to Current leadership · 34
Taliban → Abdul Ghani Baradar, Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai, Afghanistan-Pakistan, Ambassador, August, Doha, English, February, From Logar, From Uruzgan, Haibatullah Akhundzada, Haqqani, He, Heads, Indian Embassy, Indian Military Academy, Kabul, Kabul Times, Kandahar, March
related to Etymology · 28
Taliban → Additionally, Afghan Taliban, Afghanistan, American Talib, American Taliban, Arabic, Both Pakistani, English, For, In, In American English, In Arabic, In English, In English-language, Indian English-language, Islamic Movement, John Walker Lindh, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, Pashto
related to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan (1978–1992) · 28
Taliban → About, Afghan, Afghan War, Afghanistan, Afghans, After, Akhtar Abdur Rahman, Balochistan, Directorate, During, GID, Harakat-i Inqilab-e Islami, Hezb-i Islami Khalis, ISI, Islamic, Mujahideen, Mullah Omar, Pakistan, Pakistan's ISI, Pakistan's President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
related to Human trafficking · 25
Taliban → Afghanistan, Arab, During, Hazara, Jalalabad, Khost, Laden, Officials, Others, Pakistan, Pakistani, Pashtun, Peshawar, Qaeda, Sar Shahi, Several Taliban, Shomali, Shomali Plains, Some, Tajik
related to Leadership and organization · 24
Taliban → Abdul Ghani Baradar, According, Afghanistan, Baradar, February, Haibatullah Akhundzada, Haqqani, It, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Jon Lee Anderson, Kandahar, Khalil Haqqani, Laden, Mawlawi Mohammad Salim Saad, Mullah Omar, Mullah Yaqoob, Osama, Pakistan's, Prime Minister Abdul Ghani, September
related to Organization and governance · 23
Taliban → Afghans, Amir, At, Cabinet, Consequently, Consistent, Governor, Grand Mufti Rashid Ahmed, Hazara, Health, Ludhianvi's Obedience, Military, Minister, Muslims, Pashtuns, Several, State, Tajik, Taliban's, The
related to Ideology and aims · 22
Taliban → According, Afghanistan, Ahmed Rashid, Deobandi, Ikhwan, Islam, Islamic, Islamism, Islamist, Islamists, It, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, Pashtun, Pashtunwali, Sayyid Qutb, Scholarship, Sharia, Soviet, Taliban's, The Taliban
related to Massacre campaigns · 22
Taliban → According, Afghan, Afghanistan, Arab, Bin Laden's, Bosnia, Brigade, Defense, In, Ministry, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, Mullah Omar, Pakistan, Pakistani, The, The Taliban's, The UN, These, They, UN
related to 2021 offensive and return to power · 20
Taliban → Afghanistan, Afghanistan's, Ahmad Massoud, Amrullah Saleh, August, Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, By, Foreign Affairs, Ghani's, In, International Cooperation, July, Kabul, Panjshir, President Ashraf Ghani, Presidential Palace, Remaining Afghan, UAE Ministry, United Arab Emirates, US
related to Discrimination against Hindus and Sikhs · 20
Taliban → Afghan Civil War, Afghan Shiites, Afghanistan, Afghanistan's Hindu, After, Christians, Hindus, In, India, Islamic Emirate, Jews, May, Muslim, Muslims, Nazi Germany, Sharia, Sikh, Sikhs, The Taliban, Western
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Important terminology
afghanistan islamic afghan government women taliban's kabul also pakistan mullah 2021 2001 power omar war united international country 1996 according
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taliban | Active regions | Afghanistan | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Dates active | 1994–1996 (militia) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Dates active | 1996–2001 (1st government) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Dates active | 2001–2021 (insurgency) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Dates active | 2021–present (2nd government) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Deliberative body | Leadership Council | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Founders | Mullah Omar .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}#⟂ | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Founders | Abdul Ghani Baradar | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Groups | Primarily Pashtuns; minority Tajiks and Uzbeks | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Headquarters | Kandahar (1994–2001; 2021–present) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Ideology | Deobandi jihadism | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Ideology | Islamic fundamentalism | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Ideology | Afghan nationalism | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Ideology | Pashtun nationalism | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Ideology | Traditionalism Homophobia Misogyny | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Part of | Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (2021–present, 1996–2001) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Political position | Far-right | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Size | 45,000 (2001 est.) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Size | 11,000 (2008 est.) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Size | 36,000 (2010 est.) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Size | 60,000 (2014 est.) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Size | 60,000 (2017 est. excluding 90,000 local militia and 50,000 support elements) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Size | 75,000 (2021 est.) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Size | 168,000 soldiers and 210,121 police forces and pro-Taliban militia (2024 self-claim) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Supreme Leaders | Mullah Omar # (1994–2013) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Supreme Leaders | Akhtar Mansour X (2015–2016)[a] | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Supreme Leaders | Hibatullah Akhundzada (2016–present) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Wars | War in Afghanistan | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | Wars | War on terror | 1.00 | infobox |
| Taliban | is a | ally of Russia in the fight against terrorism.In November 2024 | 0.90 | text |
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