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The Taliban did not publicly respond to the offer. [citation needed] Following Ghani's offer of unconditional peace talks with the Taliban, a growing peace movement arose in Afghanistan during 2018, particularly following a peace march by the People's Peace Movement, [384] which the Afghan media dubbed the "Helmand Peace Convoy."
The UN did not recognise the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, most foreign donors and aid workers were non-Muslims, and the Taliban vented fundamental objections to the sort of 'help' the UN offered. As the Taliban's Attorney General Maulvi Jalil-ullah Maulvizada put it in 1997: Let us state what sort of education the UN wants.
The 1996–2001 Afghan Civil War took place between the Taliban's conquest of Kabul and their establishing of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on 27 September 1996, [7] and the US and UK invasion of Afghanistan on 7 October 2001: [8] a period that was part of the Afghan Civil War that had started in 1989, and also part of the war (in wider sense) in Afghanistan that had started in 1978.
The Taliban are not Islam - the Taliban are Islamabad. [51] After the 9/11 attacks, Pakistan claimed to have ended its support to the Taliban. [52] [53] But with the fall of Kabul to anti-Taliban forces in November 2001, ISI forces worked with and helped Taliban militias who were in full retreat. [54]
The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war.In February 2020, the Trump administration and the Taliban signed the United States–Taliban deal in Doha, Qatar, [7] which stipulated fighting restrictions for both the US and the Taliban, and in return for the Taliban's counter-terrorism commitments, provided ...
On 6 September, the Taliban took full control of the Panjshir province, with resistance fighters retreating to the mountains to continue fighting within the province. [ 373 ] [ 374 ] As of 3 September 2021 [update] , in addition to the opposition in the Panjshir, there are also districts in the centre of Afghanistan that are still in resistance ...
On 6 February, the road is used to bring in more food. On 26 February, Hikmatyar and the pro-Dostum Ismaili faction of Sayed Jafar Nadiri fought in Pul-i Khumri, Baghlan Province. Hundreds were killed before a ceasefire was reached on 4 March and the Ismaili faction lost 11 important positions. [6] In 1996, the Taliban returned to seize Kabul. [87]
Fall of Kabul; Part of the 2021 Taliban offensive of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the war on terror: Clockwise from top left: Afghans fleeing Kabul Airport aboard a US Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, US Marines assisting at an evacuation checkpoint at Hamid Karzai International Airport, coalition soldiers assist a child during the evacuation, armed Taliban fighters in Kabul, Taliban ...