Sample Sentences for
Taliban
(editor-reviewed)

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    I don't want to be thought of as the "girl who was shot by the Taliban" but the "girl who fought for education."  (source)
    Taliban = fundamentalist Islamic political and military organization
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    A few weeks later, the Taliban banned kite fighting.  (source)
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    His face had been blasted by close-range gunfire, in that quaint, old-fashioned way the Taliban have when they find a mortally wounded American.  (source)
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    The Taliban are good fighters and we already knew the operation had the potential to get squirrelly.†  (source)
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    The second battle was against the Taliban insurgency.†  (source)
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    The shot impacts its targets and spins the Taliban runner like a ballerina.†  (source)
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    There were beheadings and burnings in Syria, a string of simultaneous suicide bombings in Baghdad, a Taliban raid in Kabul, a new round of fighting in Yemen, several stabbings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and a gun-and-grenade attack on Western tourists at a beach hotel in Tunisia.†  (source)
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    Nearly every dawn, Taliban fighters launched rockets at the outpost.†  (source)
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    I think of Kim chasing Taliban insurgents and ducking flying trees.†  (source)
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    Moments later, another passing soldier looked at Zeitoun and muttered "Taliban."†  (source)
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    It has been in combat in Afghanistan against the Taliban and Pashtun tribesmen.†  (source)
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    I allowed an Englishwoman to visit, and the children talked and the Taliban raided the next day.†  (source)
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    They'd been ambushed by the Taliban in Afghanistan; surrounded by hundreds of Taliban fighters, they fought ferociously.†  (source)
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