Talibanas (arba Talebanas) (pušt.طالبان = ṭālibān, mokiniai, žinių siekėjai) – sunitų musulmoniškasis judėjimas, kurio nariai nuo 1996 m. iki 2001 m. bei nuo 2021 m. rugpjūčio vidurio valdė didžiąją dalį Afganistano.[35] Talibanas pastaruoju metu yra įsitraukęs į partizaninę kovą prieš užsienio valstybių pajėgas Afganistane.
Gittleson, Ben (1 January 2021). „US investigating unconfirmed intel that China offered bounties on American troops“. ABC7 San Francisco (anglų). „A spokesperson for China's foreign ministry, Wang Wenbin, on Thursday denied the accusation, calling it a "smear and slander against China" that was "completely nonsense" and "fake news."“
„Iranian Support for Taliban Alarms Afghan Officials“. Middle East Institute. 9 January 2017. „Both Tehran and the Taliban denied cooperation during the first decade after the US intervention, but the unholy alliance is no longer a secret and the two sides now unapologetically admit and publicize it.“
↑„Pakistan's support of the Taliban“. Human Rights Watch. 2000. „Of all the foreign powers involved in efforts to sustain and manipulate the ongoing fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistan is distinguished both by the sweep of its objectives and the scale of its efforts, which include soliciting funding for the Taliban, bankrolling Taliban operations, providing diplomatic support as the Taliban's virtual emissaries abroad, arranging training for Taliban fighters, recruiting skilled and unskilled manpower to serve in Taliban armies, planning and directing offensives, providing and facilitating shipments of ammunition and fuel, and ... directly providing combat support.“
↑Tom Wheeldon (18 August 2021). „Pakistan cheers Taliban out of 'fear of India' – despite spillover threat“. France 24. „The Afghan militants' closeness to Pakistani jihadist group (TTP or, simply, the Pakistani Taliban) is a particular source of concern. The TTP have carried out scores of deadly attacks since their inception in the 2000s, including the infamous 2014 Peshawar school massacre. The Taliban and the TTP are "two faces of the same coin", Pakistani Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and ISI boss Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed acknowledged at an off-the-record briefing in July. Indeed, the Taliban reportedly freed a senior TTP commander earlier this month during their sweep through Afghanistan. "Pakistan definitely worries about the galvanising effects the Taliban's victory will have on other Islamist militants, and especially the TTP, which was already resurging before the Taliban marched into Kabul," Michael Kugelman, a South Asia expert at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, told FRANCE 24. "It's a fear across the establishment."“
↑„Why Central Asian states want peace with the Taliban“. DW News. 27 March 2018. „"Taliban have assured Russia and Central Asian countries that it would not allow any group, including the IMU, to use Afghan soil against any foreign state," Muzhdah said.“