Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Taliban ta fara farfadowa saboda dalilai da yawa. A karshen shekarar 2014, Amurka da kungiyar tsaro ta NATO sun kawo karshen yakin basasa kuma ficewar mafi yawan sojojin kasashen waje daga Afghanistan ya rage hadarin da Taliban ke fuskanta na samun hare-haren bama-bamai da hare-hare. A watan Yunin 2014, rundunar sojin Pakistan ta Operation Zarb-e-Azb, da aka kaddamar a yankin kabilar Waziristan ta Arewa a watan Yunin 2014, ta fitar da dubban 'yan ta'addan Uzbek, Larabawa da Pakistan, wadanda suka yi ambaliya zuwa Afghanistan kuma suka kara yawan Taliban. Kungiyar ta kara karfafa gwiwa ta hanyar rashin sha'awar al'ummomin duniya da kuma karkatar da hankalinta ga rikici a wasu sassan duniya, kamar Siriya, Iraki, Yemen, Ukraine, Libya, Najeriya
, da kuma Somalia. Sojojin tsaron Afghanistan kuma ba su da wasu iyawa da kayan aiki, musamman ikon iska da bincike. Rikicin siyasa a cikin gwamnatin tsakiya a Kabul da bayyananniyar rauni a cikin shugabanci a matakai daban-daban suma Taliban ke amfani da su. A watan Mayun 2015, Rasha ta rufe wata babbar hanyar sufuri ta soja wacce ta baiwa NATO damar isar da kayan soja zuwa Afghanistan ta yankin Rasha.