Taliban is a Sunni (more precisely, Deobandi) fundamentalist political and military group now in power in Afghanistan. The term “Taliban” means “students” and points to its origins as a social movement of students from madrassas – religious schools. One more terrorist-fundamentalist movement was technically created because of Russian imperialism.
The movement that the international community used to see as a terrorist came to power in 2021 after American troops had withdrawn from Afghanistan. Maybe this is why there are many conspiracy theories about it now.
In the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the general public on the Internet and even some experts from the Center for the Study of Modern Afghanistan promoted the idea that the Taliban could somehow help Ukrainian in this war, for example, by opening the second front against Russia.
So, in this article, we will consider the most popular theories about Taliban participation in the Russian-Ukrainian war and the possibility of such events
Ayman Eckford, our expert in Middle Eastern politics, terrorist studies, and gender studies, deserves special thanks for preparing the report.
