TALIBAN (2 VOLS. SET)The Taliban is a Sunni Islamist, predominantly Pashtun radical religious and political movement created in 1994 by Mohammed Omar in Southern Afghan city of Kandhar that governed Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, when its leaders were removed from power by NATO forces. Based in the Pasthun region in the country's southeast, the group grew out of a student movement dedicated to purifying Afghanistan. Its rise was intially greeted with relief by many