A Taliban Fighter Dancing After Winning Over Their Enemy In Kunduz | Taliban Regains Control

A Taliban Fighter Dancing After Winning Over Their Enemy In Kunduz | Taliban Regains Control | Afganistan The Taliban (/ˈtælɪbæn, ˈtɑːlɪbɑːn/; Pashto: طالبان‎, romanized: ṭālibān, lit. ’students’ or ’seekers’)[52][53] or Taleban, who refer to themselves as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA),[54] is a Deobandi Islamist movement and military organization in Afghanistan, currently waging war (an insurgency, or jihad) within the country.[55][56][57] Since 2016, the Taliban’s leader has been Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.[58][59][60] In 2021 the Taliban was estimated to have 75,000 fighters.[61] From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban held power over roughly three-quarters of Afghanistan, and enforced a strict interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law.[62] The Taliban emerged in 1994 as one of the prominent factions in the Afghan Civil War[63] and largely consisted of students (talib) from the Pashtun areas of eastern and southern Afghanistan who had been educated in traditional Islamic schools, and fought during th