How to Use Taliban in a Sentence

Taliban

plural noun

• And because of that, the Taliban is trying to seek them out for reprisal.
  — / Cbs News, CBS News, 25 May 2025
• Their lives are turned upside down, as the doc shows, when the Taliban returns.
  — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2025
• The film was shot about a year and a half ago, during the time when the Taliban were in power.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025
• Dockery killed the two Taliban fighters and rushed the sergeant to safety.
  — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 18 June 2026
• There’s no time for freelancing when fighting a fire, or the Taliban.
  — Bill Speros, Boston Herald, 21 May 2025
• To be able to build the trust of the Taliban and film with them for the greater part of a year is so commendable.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
• Afghanistan’s Taliban regime just took to the hills, kept fighting and returned to power.
  — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 17 June 2025
• Some of the missing were, in fact, Taliban, their families said.
  — Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 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
• Book burning is for the Middle Ages and the Taliban.
  — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
• Some of them were shot during the confusion, by the Taliban or someone else.
  — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
• Most girls have been barred from high school and women from universities by the Taliban.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2024
• Any hopes for progress and democracy died when the Taliban took Kabul.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
• Trump's deal with the Taliban is to blame for the chaotic withdrawal in Afghanistan.
  — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 11 Sep. 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
• His unit had been in a direct engagement with Taliban fighters.
  — Cari Shane, USA Today, 29 May 2026
• Video of the shooting spread online before the Taliban could contain it.
  — Fatima Faizi, NPR, 10 July 2026
• The Taliban do not roam the streets of Chicago, and their modus operandi should not be applied here.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
• The Taliban retook power in Afghanistan.
  — Ali Wyne, Time, 23 Mar. 2026
• Soon, Salimi heard the Taliban was looking for her.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 29 Mar. 2026
• But four years on, the fundamentalist wing of the Taliban seems to be winning.
  — Mark Baron, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2025
• As America starts to withdraw from her country, the Taliban marks her for death.
  — Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 28 Apr. 2023
• Afghanistan’s Taliban regime responded with drone attacks.
  — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 24 Mar. 2026
• Dennis Coyle was freed on the occasion of Eid, the Taliban said.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2026
• Witnesses said Taliban forces opened fire on demonstrators, killing at least one person.
  — Fatima Faizi, NPR, 10 July 2026
• Vietnam turned communist; Afghanistan went right back to the Taliban; Iraq is a failed state.
  — Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 21 June 2025
• Tens of thousands of Afghans fled after the Taliban takeover in 2021.
  — Time, 31 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Islamabad has accused the group of being a front for the Pakistani Taliban.
  — ABC News, 11 May 2026
• 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