Taliban and affiliated groups

The Beginning – 1978-1996 The Taliban is a terrorist group that seized back control of Afghanistan's government in August 2021 The origin of the Afghan

The Pakistani Taliban , formally called the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan is an umbrella organization of various Islamist armed

taliban Many Western-backed Afghan government leaders fled, while thousands of their compatriots and foreigners fearing Taliban rule scrambled to find

taliban Read CNN's Fast Facts on the Taliban to learn about the Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan