DNA Explainer: Who are the Taliban and why do they want to capture Afghanistan?
DNA Explainer: Who are the Taliban and why do they want to capture Afghanistan?
It has been 20 years since the Taliban government in Afghanistan was revoked by the United States in 2001. Now when foreign troops led by the US left the country, the Taliban was never closer to claiming government over the country struck by war in the last two decades.
The Taliban quickly gets the ground. Estimated suggested control of clothing around three countries. In the last week, the Taliban has won vital cities such as Kandahar and Herat. It stood no more than 150 kilometers from challenging the Afghan government in the Kabul capital.
According to NATO, the Taliban is stronger than one day since the fall of 2001. currently has around 85,000 fighters among its staff.
Afghanistan is in the threat of an all-out civil war between the Taliban and President Ashraf Ghani-chosen a democratically elected government. The conflict has claimed tens of thousands of lives and evacuated millions of others in his life.
US intelligence is worried that the Taliban can overthrow the government in a matter of months, reversing Afghanistan to their ideas about the Islamic State.
Who is the Taliban?
Taliban’ is the word Pashto which literally means ‘student’ in English. The Taliban emerged as an Islamic movement in the early 1990s and its formation could be traced back to North Pakistan.
The origin of the Taliban regulation can be traced back to the late 1970s when thousands of Afghan mercenary soldiers were trained in Pakistan to take the USSR occupation in Afghanistan. These fighters include Mulla Mohammed Omar, founder of the Taliban’s future. Supported by the US, the Mujahideen Fighters forced the Soviet Union to withdraw from Afghanistan.
The increase in the Taliban came when the Soviet Union troops were withdrawn from the country and Afghanistan was under the chaotic government of the Mujahideen War Commander.
From the southwest of Afghanistan, the Taliban quickly gained territory and captured the capital of Kabul in 1996 to expel the Afghan Mujahidal government in the process. The Talibanis calls themselves as Afghan Islamic Emirates (IEA).
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