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Taliban Back in Power After 20 Years | Cork News
Thirty years after first seizing Kabul, the Taliban are back in power — a haunting echo of their 1996 rise, when they promised order to a war-torn nation. Once seen as a stabilizing force by exhausted Afghans, their harsh rule banned music, crushed women’s rights, and imposed rigid Islamic law. Then came 9/11, triggering a U.S.-led invasion with the goal of hunting down al-Qaeda — but the mission ballooned into two decades of costly intervention, billions spent, and failed state-building. Despite temporary gains in education and women’s freedoms, the Taliban retook Kabul in 2021, undoing…
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