How to Use Taliban in a Sentence

Taliban

plural noun
  • Dockery killed the two Taliban fighters and rushed the sergeant to safety.
    — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 18 June 2026
  • Book burning is for the Middle Ages and the Taliban.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
  • His unit had been in a direct engagement with Taliban fighters.
    — Cari Shane, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • The Taliban retook power in Afghanistan.
    — Ali Wyne, Time, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Soon, Salimi heard the Taliban was looking for her.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Afghanistan’s Taliban regime responded with drone attacks.
    — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Dennis Coyle was freed on the occasion of Eid, the Taliban said.
    — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Islamabad has accused the group of being a front for the Pakistani Taliban.
    — ABC News, 11 May 2026
  • The province is also home to militants linked to the Pakistani Taliban.
    — Munir Ahmed The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Jamaat-ul-Ahrar is a breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban.
    — Abdul Qahar Afghan, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • At the time, Afghans were scrambling to be evacuated as the Taliban regime returned to power.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The Taliban typically plays ball.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • After the Taliban returned to power, our family’s courage was met with cruelty.
    — Sediqa Fahimi, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • By 1996, the Taliban had captured the capital.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • The Taliban regime confirmed 800 people were killed, with many people injured or still missing.
    — David Bressan, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • In 2020, the US was dominant enough to reach an agreement with the Taliban and sell it.
    — Obi Anyadike, semafor.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Many thought the Afghan Taliban’s return to power in 2021 would resolve this tension.
    — Rabia Akhtar, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2026
  • One of her first tasks was responding to a report that the Taliban were concerned about Andrew Tate’s well-being.
    — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • The four years of the Taliban regime have seen many more human rights violations affecting the Afghan society as a whole.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • But most work never got off the ground, mired in red tape, corruption, and security risks due to the Taliban insurgency.
    — ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • But now the Afghan Government has cut the contract and the Chinese firm says the Taliban took some of its workers hostage.
    — Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The Taliban released an American detainee after a plea from the man's family.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The film follows young Afghan women, inspired by Anne Frank, defying the Taliban.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The Taliban was and still is adept at infiltrating aid organizations and diverting aid to fill their coffers.
    — Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Videos circulating on social media appear to show Taliban forces opening fire on protesters and beating them with sticks.
    — Ahmad Mukhtar, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • Four years of the Taliban in power had a devastating effect on religious minorities in the country.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Pakistani Taliban militants and other armed groups also operate in the region.
    — ABC News, 22 June 2026
  • In the book, Jowett evokes the heat and chaos of battle as the Taliban hit Easy Company with wave after wave of brutal attack.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 14 May 2026
  • Easy Company found themselves in a ramshackle compound, cut off and heavily outnumbered by the Taliban in the town.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 14 May 2026
  • The country shares a northwestern border with Afghanistan, and many of its tribal areas are subject to Taliban influence.
    — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 26 Apr. 2026

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