Sentence examples for taliban between from inspiring English sources

"The only negotiations are between the army and the Taliban, between the army and Baitullah Mehsud," he said.

There have been tensions inside the Pakistani Taliban between Mr. Mehsud and his deputy, Wali ur-Rehman, over the past year.

And they are the local authorities that the Marines and their American and British civilian counterparts have been trying to put back together, after forcibly clearing the district of the Taliban between 2009 and 2011.

The refugees who came across the front lines today said that the population of Kunduz was largely split in its support for the Taliban, between the ethnic Pashtuns, who favored them, and the Uzbeks, Tajiks and Turkmen, who did not.

Qayum and the Saudis agreed to host a Taliban go-between.

But as anti-Taliban forces moved into the city, fighting broke out -- not with the Taliban, but between rival factions of the opposition.

In one example, a story in USA Today in March 2011 quoted US military figures as saying that "raids have taken out 900 Taliban leaders" between July 2010 and March 2011.

The official synopsis for Barker's "darkly comic and unsparing" book explains how she "barely owned a passport, spoke only English and had little idea how to do the 'Taliban Shuffle' between Afghanistan and Pakistan".

Pakistan's efforts to restore normalcy — a vital test of the government's resolve to stand up to the Taliban — waver between fear and hope, leaving an enduring victory over the militants a distant goal.

Zabul and adjoining southern provinces have been the battleground for deadly clashes between Taliban guerrillas and American-led and government forces since the Taliban were overthrown in late 2001.

It also cuts a key Taliban supply line between Kabul and Herat in the west and between the capital and Mazar-i-Sharif to the north.