The Afghanistan Wars - William Maley

as Taliban were hunted down by enraged locals. Hundreds were killed. By nightfall, the alliance between Malik and the Taliban wa ...

Massoud was never eliminated on the battlefield. For much of the period between 1996 and 2001, forces under his control remained ...

controlled no territory in Afghanistan. The other was that it pro- vided a potential Afghan partner for international operations ...

Afghanistan’ (BBC Summary of World BroadcastsFE/2234/A/1–2, 22 February 1995). However, the Taliban’s notion of security proved ...

enforced. The message that there should be no compulsion in reli- gion, contained in the Koran (Sura al-Baqarah, 2: 256), carrie ...

The Taliban and the state The Taliban’s approach to rule was one in which the state did not play as central a role as one might ...

of opium (Rubin, 2000: 1796) Opium was nevertheless a vital source of income for the Taliban. The involvement of the Taliban in ...

stories on the death of Najibullah, they searched for other things to report. They did not have far to look. The Taliban were by ...

two other developments were arguably much more grave in their impact. One was the immediate exclusion of women from most paid em ...

they held sway. This was well illustrated in a comment made about Ismail Khan by Taliban Information Minister Qudratullah Jamal ...

crammed inside sealed metal containers under a hot August sun. In at least one hospital, as many as 30 patients were shot as the ...

property. The Taliban were prepared to disrupt the former and destroy the latter if they thought it necessary to do so. One mani ...

THE TALIBAN AND THE WORLD The impact of gender The Taliban’s treatment of women became an international issue within days of the ...

cared deeply about their own government’s response to the Taliban’s demands for acceptance, as an important symbol of the Clinto ...

revolutionary forces, ‘So long as the revolution has not been fully successful, and so long as the lawful government, however ad ...

UNOCAL Vice-President, Chris Taggart, reportedly termed it a ‘positive development’ (Reuters, 1 October 1996). UNOCAL put Robert ...

Nations’ is a network of loosely connected and weakly coordinated bodies, with their own interests to pursue. The Taliban proved ...

could not operate as it did in all other member states, ‘we should pack up and go’. He added that the ‘international community h ...

markedly more senior and experienced figure than any mediator since Cordovez. Formerly Foreign Minister of Algeria, he had head- ...

missiles. The strikes killed a number of militants – Afghans, Arabs, Pakistanis, and Kashmiris – but Bin Laden escaped unscathed ...