Sentence examples for enemy taliban from inspiring English sources

The battles are fought in civilian-free zones, where pretty much everyone you encounter is an enemy — Taliban, Al Qaeda or Chechen — and a threat to your life.

Our ostensible ally, President Hamid Karzai, is convinced that the U.S. cannot prevail in the war and is in hot pursuit of his own deal with the enemy Taliban.

Berghdahl is also a reminder of the irony of the Afghan war: The enemy—Taliban insurgents and al Qaeda jihadists were largely based in Pakistan; the troops America and its allies were in Afghanistan.

Britain's main enemy, the Taliban, has developed close links to drugs smugglers.

"Where do you see the reporting of our enemy, the Taliban in Afghanistan?

A post-9/11 tragedy has been the U.S. failure to build on the Iranian opening that the overthrow of a shared enemy, the Taliban in Kabul, created.

But a decade later, in a surprising reversal, the Russians are arming these very warriors because they are fighting Moscow's new enemy, the Taliban.

You know you're in trouble when you're in a war in which the only party whose objectives are clear, whose rhetoric is consistent and whose will to fight never seems to diminish is your enemy: the Taliban.

It seemed clear to Crocker that the Iranians were answering to Suleimani, whom they referred to as "Haji Qassem," and that they were eager to help the United States destroy their mutual enemy, the Taliban.

He also went in September 2001, days after the 9/11 attacks had thrown geopolitics into confusion and brought a short-lived rapprochement between Iran and the west in the face of a common enemy, the Taliban.

"When it comes to effective fighting partnerships between factions and forces in the field, the enemy – the Taliban – seem to be doing it rather better than we do," said Smith.