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Noun: Taleban
  1. A fundamentalist Islamic militia; in 1995 the Taliban militia took over Afghanistan and in 1996 took Kabul and set up an Islamic government
    "the Taleban enforced a strict Muslim code of behaviour";
    - Taliban

Type of: religious movement

Encyclopedia: Taleban