5 years after the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan. They formed amid the Afghan civil war that raged through the mid 90's, where warlords battled each other for control of the opium trade.
While some of the players may be same, the Taliban that ran Afghanistan after 1996 are not the same mujahadeen that fought the Soviet Union through the 1980's.
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