Taliban’s Battle for Afghanistan Has Sustained Decades of a Global Islamism

August 17, 2022

The one-year anniversary of the US-led peace building coalition in Afghanistan that left the Taliban in control of the South Asian country is a reminder of the staying power and contagion effects of the Islamist group for global jihadis, since the Taliban’s successful ouster of the Soviet Union in the late-1980s inspired jihadists worldwide to stand up against superpowers, just as the current a Taliban Islamic Emirate is viewed as an example for emulation by Islamists on multiple continents.