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The Taliban is a Sunni Islamist militant group that was founded in Afghanistan in the 1990s. The group rose to power in the mid-1990s and ruled over much of Afghanistan until 2001, when it was toppled by a U.S.-led military campaign. The group has continued to wage an insurgency against the Afghan government and its international allies, and the conflict in Afghanistan has continued to this day.\\xa0