Mother Jones: Pipe Dreams
- Energy politics helped set the stage for the current conflict, as at least one US oil company, California-based Unocal, recently courted the Taliban to close a deal to build a pipeline across the country.
- http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2001/10/pipedreams.html

ISIM: The Taliban Enigma
- M. Nazif Shahrani examines factors in Afghan history and political culture that gave rise to the militant movement. (Page 20 of the PDF document)
- http://www.isim.nl/files/newsl_6.pdf

Analysis: Who are the Taleban?
- BBC analyzes who the Taliban are and why they have the support of Afghans.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/144382.stm

Journalism under the Taliban
- Committee to Protect Journalists discusses how Afghan journalists do their jobs.
- http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/1999/Taliban/Taliban15dec99.html

The Taliban: Exporting Extremism
- A essay by Ahmed Rashid on the history of the movement and its threat to the surrounding region, from Foreign Affairs.
- http://www.indianembassy.org/policy/Terrorism/think_tank/taliban_extremism_fa_nov_99.htm

Who are the Taliban?
- Report by AsiaSource, with links to news articles and commentary.
- http://www.asiasource.org/news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=61691

The Taliban - A Factsheet
- History and information about the Taliban in Afghanistan from Oddsworld. Links to related websites.
- http://www.oddsworld.co.uk/factsheet/taliban.html

The Taliban by Peter Marsden
- A review by Danny Yee of a 1998 book on the Taliban, written by someone who worked as an NGO coordinator for Afghanistan.
- http://dannyreviews.com/h/Taliban.html

Guardian Unlimited: Mullah Omar - in his own words
- Translated text of a Voice of America interview of the Taliban leader.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,558076,00.html

PBS News: The Taliban
- Interview of Noorullah Zadran, a Taliban representative, following cruise missile attacks by the US in response to embassy bombings in Africa.
- http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/july-dec98/taliban_8-21.html

Taliban: War for War's Sake
- New York Times article focusing primarily on the destruction of art objects by the Taliban.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/18/weekinreview/18CROS.html?searchpv=nytToday

Taliban Explains Buddha Demolition
- Why the Islamic government in Afghanistan destroyed art objects.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/19/world/19TALI.html?searchpv=nytToday

Bush Gives Taliban $10 Million To Fight Opium
- Brief, critical article from NOW's Womensenews.
- http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/561/context/outrage

The Taliban's War on Women: A Health and Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan
- Executive summary of a report issued by Physicians for Human Rights.
- http://www.phrusa.org/research/health_effects/exec.html

Why the Taliban are Destroying Buddhas
- Why the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar issued an edict against un-Islamic graven images which resulted in the destruction of statues of Buddha.
- http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/archaeology/2001-03-22-afghan-buddhas.htm