Taliban
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Taliban /ˈtalɪban/ (also Taleban)
▶noun a fundamentalist Muslim movement that ruled much of Afghanistan 1995–2001.
– origin from Pers. ṭālibān, pl. of ṭālib ‘student, seeker of knowledge’, from Arab.
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