Taliban dahulu dikenali sebagai organisasi ketenteraan terrorisme pengganas Afghanistan. Taliban pernah memerintah sebahagian besar Afghanistan dari 1996 sehingga 2001, pentadbiran mereka telah dikutuk di peringkat antarabangsa atas perlakuan kejam terhadap rakyat Afghanistan, terutama wanita.
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^Deobandi Islam: The Religion of the Taliban U. S. Navy Chaplain Corps, 15 October 2001
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^"Iranian Support for Taliban Alarms Afghan Officials". Middle East Institute. 9 January 2017. Both Tehran and the Taliban denied cooperation during the first decade after the US intervention, but the unholy alliance is no longer a secret and the two sides now unapologetically admit and publicize it.
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^Gall, Carlotta (26 March 2009). "Pakistan and Afghan Taliban Close Ranks". The New York Times. Islamabad, Pakistan. Dicapai pada 14 December 2020. The Afghan Taliban delegation urged the Pakistani Taliban leaders to settle their internal differences, scale down their activities in Pakistan and help counter the planned increase of American forces in Afghanistan, the fighters said.
^Zahid, Farhan (15 April 2019). "Profile of New TTP Chief Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud: Challenges and Implications"(PDF). pakpips.com. Islamabad, Pakistan: Pak Institute for Peace Studies. m/s. 4. Dicapai pada 14 December 2020. According to Mehsud, the real jihad is against US forces in occupied Afghanistan to restore the Islamic Emirate while using tribal areas of Pakistan as base of operations and safe haven for both Taliban and Al-Qaeda. He further explains the goals and aims of the jihadi movement as: maintaining the independent status for Mehsud tribe, defeating the US in Afghanistan, establishing caliphate in Afghanistan
^"Why Central Asian states want peace with the Taliban". DW News. 27 March 2018. "Taliban have assured Russia and Central Asian countries that it would not allow any group, including the IMU, to use Afghan soil against any foreign state," Muzhdah said.
^Ibrahimi, Niamatullah. 2009. "Divide and Rule: State Penetration in Hazarajat (Afghanistan) from Monarchy to the Taliban", Crisis States Working Papers (Series 2) 42, London: Crisis States Research Centre, LSE
^Rubin, Barnett. article. published by the Center on International Cooperation 2 November 2015 (originally published within Al Jazeera). Dicapai pada 11 November 2015.("...The Taliban ... have repeatedly said that their jihad is limited to their own country...")