Sentence examples for intense taliban from inspiring English sources

General Abbas also said that the military was not yet moving into South Waziristan, the area in Pakistan of the most intense Taliban and Qaeda concentration that is expected to be the focus of the military's next effort against the militants.

After three days of intense fighting, the Taliban retreated into the mountains on 10 December.

The airport was the scene of heavy American bombardment and, later, intense fighting between anti-Taliban factions and the last remnants of Taliban and Al Qaeda forces even after Kandahar itself fell more than a week ago.

But intense fighting, IEDs and Taliban control over roads made movement of trucks carrying produce difficult.

The latest bombings were called the most intense to date against Taliban forces in the field.

The Iranian regime regarded the Taliban with intense hostility, in large part because of their persecution of Afghanistan's minority Shiite population.

-- The international community should put intense pressure on the Taliban in 2009 in order to bring out their more violent and ideologically radical tendencies.

A Foreign Ministry spokesman for the small Persian Gulf emirate said the action resulted from the failure of "intense efforts" to persuade Taliban officials to give up Mr. bin Laden.

The shift in approach follows the rising death toll, outspoken criticism from opposition politicians, and the prospect of a long period of intense fighting against the Taliban.

The company command element began patrolling back to its small outpost in the dimming light, listening to an intense firefight between the Taliban and Third Platoon in the distance.

In May, Hindus in Afghanistan were ordered to wear yellow identification badges to distinguish them from Muslims (under intense international criticism, the Taliban later backed down to the extent of deciding only identification cards would be required).