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rose to power by restoring order in Afghanistan after the war with the Soviet Union

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That describes the Taliban. Emerging in 1994 under Mullah Mohammad Omar, the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996 and set up the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, having gained support by promising to end the chaos of the post‑Soviet civil war and restore order (through a strict interpretation of Sharia).