MoH marketing director explains 'Taliban' removal.

Medal of Honor is available now and there may still be people who have some questions regarding the name change of 'Taliban' to the slightly more politically correct 'Opposing Force' (a term largely used by U.S. armed forces to describe the enemy) in the game's multiplayer. Now, Danger Close Games (who designed Medal of Honor’s single player campaign) is explaining their take on the Taliban name controversy:

“The objection was, kind of from an older generation that doesn’t understand games, that the soundbyte was ‘Play as the Taliban and kill US soldiers’. There still is, it seems, a group that’s still a little bit leery of a game taking place around an active conflict. Really the big thing was playing as a Taliban killing US troops.
So we basically just changed it to ‘Opfor’ — which is a term they [the US Armed Forces] use, some of our competitors use — more out of respect. Later that soundbyte kinda caught wind and got taken out of context, really.”