How to Use Taliban in a Sentence

Taliban

plural noun
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  • However, the takeover by the Taliban in August 2021 turns the lives of the three women upside down.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Taliban has enacted a new measure prohibiting Afghan women from praying aloud or reciting the Quran in the presence of other women.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Some winds up at the central bank of Afghanistan, which is under the control of the Taliban.
    — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Trump's deal with the Taliban is to blame for the chaotic withdrawal in Afghanistan.
    — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Bergdahl walked away from his base in Afghanistan and was held prisoner by the Taliban for years.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 26 July 2023
  • Yes, after 20 years of War on Terror, Afghanistan is run by…the Taliban.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
  • And after the Taliban took over the country, many members of the platoon were forced to flee to the United States.
    — Ava Sasani, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • But the specter of the Taliban’s edicts targeting women and girls also looms at the Afghan Post.
    — Riazat Butt, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
  • Some of that may be due to the fact that Musk has allowed Nazis and the Taliban on Twitter—and even verified them.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
  • The real failure was the disastrous deal Trump made with the Taliban, who didn’t keep their end of the agreement.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Some of the missing were, in fact, Taliban, their families said.
    — Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • The fleeting highs—the faux victory over the Taliban, the real death of Osama bin Laden—never linger too long.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 10 July 2024
  • Since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan three years ago, more than 100 other Afghans have settled in Dayton.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 20 Sep. 2024
  • But there is something that can be done: the Taliban can be held accountable.
    — Binaifer Nowrojee, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The most recent wave came after the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
    — Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Some of them were shot during the confusion, by the Taliban or someone else.
    — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Any hopes for progress and democracy died when the Taliban took Kabul.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • For 20 years, thousands of Afghanis put their lives at risk aiding the United States in its war against the Taliban.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2024
  • After Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August 2021, the shelter saw a new surge of asylum seekers.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, the Taliban’s Afghanistan.
    — Hank Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2023
  • And in the United States, a group of people who knew all too well how the Taliban’s rule would affect the young women, committed to help.
    — Marie Margolius, Time, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The debacle that ensued saw the Taliban take over a feeble state that had been propped up for close to two decades with U.S. resources.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
  • In a controversial move, Trump revealed and canceled a plan to hold secret peace talks at the site with the Taliban.
    — USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Most girls have been barred from high school and women from universities by the Taliban.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2024
  • As America starts to withdraw from her country, the Taliban marks her for death.
    — Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The teenager decided to leave after the Taliban took over in August 2021.
    — Ingrid Gercama, NPR, 27 Apr. 2024
  • However, with the return of the Taliban to power, her dreams, and those of her daughter and grand daughter are shattered.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 15 Nov. 2023
  • At the time, the Taliban had soccer players’ heads shaved as punishment for wearing shorts.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
  • In 2020, a temporary truce between the United States and the Taliban in Afghanistan took effect, setting the stage for the two sides to sign a peace deal the following week.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2024
  • This book all but accuses fat people of being the Taliban.
    — John Paul Brammer, SELF, 7 Sep. 2023

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