Word: talibans
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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...city Friday morning with little resistance and quickly hanged a former president. They later set up an interim ruling council and declared Islamic law. Government forces that had been opposing the rebels withdrew north of the Kabul Thursday night, saying they wanted to avoid civilian casualties. Members of the Taliban, a rebel group led by ex-seminary students, stormed the city at about 1 a.m. Friday from several directions. They quickly located former President Najibullah and his brother at a U.N compound, where they had been hiding since losing power four years ago. TIME's Meenakshi Ganguly, reporting from...
After the Soviets left, the Islamic fighters who opposed them--the mujahedin--separated into factions that turned on one another and the government. Last year a new group began knocking at the city's gates: the Taliban, an army of self-styled "students" of Islamic fundamentalism. Having repeatedly failed to take the capital, 8,000 Taliban are now camped on the high ground south, hurling rockets into the city. They announce themselves with the sound of a jet; a second of silence follows, then an explosion makes the earth tremble. It is not unusual for 15 to land...