Sentence examples for rising taliban from inspiring English sources

Amid rising Taliban attacks, the United States recently increased its total military and reconstruction spending in Afghanistan to $13 billion a year.

At the time the valley was struggling to cope with a rising Taliban insurgency, later crushed by a major military operation mounted by the Pakistani army.

When some among Lieven's elite hosts in Peshawar, referring to a rising Taliban leader, wonder who would possibly want to follow a former bus driver, Lieven replies: other bus drivers, of course.

The assessment also found that increasing numbers of Afghans viewed Mr. Karzai's government as corrupt, failing to deliver promised reconstruction and too weak to protect the country from rising Taliban attacks.

Thus, keeping about 10,000 U.S. ground troops in Afghanistan, plus the use of U.S. air power, merely makes it more likely that the United States will be drawn back into the conflict to save the non-viable power sharing government from the again rising Taliban.

Even as green-on-blue violence has fallen, civilian casualties have continued to rise as Taliban bombs have wreaked havoc on local populations.

Here Rosenberg is referring to the Taliban of the 1990s as "insurgents" (they were actually more like a conquering Medieval horde that outnumbered their more moderate ethnic enemies in the north than "insurgents") and he is implying that Dostum's "predatory ways" helped give rise to Taliban "insurgency".

The rout of the Taliban from Afghan cities continued apace yesterday, and there were reports that Pashtun tribes in the south, the ethnic base of the Taliban, were rising up and challenging the Taliban even in its stronghold of Kandahar.

PASHTUN TRIBES REBEL -- The rout of the Taliban from Afghan cities continued, and reports said Pashtun tribes in the south, the ethnic base of the Taliban, were rising up and challenging the Taliban.

He left our ports unsecured, our food supply unsafe, the Taliban rising and Osama on the loose.

Other casualties around the country indicated the rising level of Taliban attacks across the south and southeast.