Synonyms for taliban
tal·iban

Princeton's WordNet

1. Taliban, Talebannoun

   a fundamentalist Islamic militia; in 1995 the Taliban militia took over Afghanistan and in 1996 took Kabul and set up an Islamic government

   "the Taliban enforced a strict Muslim code of behavior"

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1. • Religious Movement

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1. List of paraphrases for "taliban":

   talban, taleban, talibans, talabani, anti-taliban, al-talabani

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1. Raheel Sharif:

   For now, the U.S. is acting on the Pakistani promise that if the Pakistan army's enemies are eliminated, Pakistan will help reconcile the Afghan Taliban, the spike in attacks against al Qaeda does mean closer U.S.-Pakistan tactics. But it's tactical moves, not a deeper strategic shift ... Overall trust is still low.

2. Dawood Shah Wafadar:

   The operation is going very slowly as the Taliban have taken six people hostage including two women and two children, so we have to act cautiously.

3. Ahmad Sahil:

   The Taliban who knew Kunduz left the city already, but many foreign fighters could not flee and are hiding in people's homes in some parts of the city center and are still resisting.

4. Antony Blinken:

   We are looking intensely at ways to put more liquidity into the Afghan economy, to get more money into people's pockets, and doing that with international institutions, with other countries and partners, trying to put in place the right mechanisms to do that in a way that doesn't directly benefit the Taliban but does go directly to the people, we're very conscious of the fact that there is an incredibly difficult humanitarian situation right now, one that could get worse as winter sets in.

5. Brad Sherman:

   What’s newsworthy is that she admits Hamas is guilty of ‘unthinkable atrocities,' it’s time for all of Israel’s detractors to condemn Hamas. And it’s time for all those of good will to reject any moral equivalency between the U.S. and Israel on one hand, and Hamas and the Taliban on the other.