Taliban

THE TALIBAN

The Taliban was a group of Muslim fundamentalist movement that had large militant and political Islamist group that controlled or took over large parts of Afghanistan. The rise of the Taliban was in September 1996 until October 2001. The main leader of the Taliban movement was [|Mullah Mohammed Omar] and [|Kandahar] was the birth place of this group called [|Taliban]. The Al-Qaeda group also supported the Taliban with fighters from Arab countries. They took control of Afghanistan after a civil war they only controlled 90% of it and they were ousted from power in December 2001 by u.s. military in response to 9/11 terrorist attack. The word Taliban means ( religious student).