Afghanistan Under the Taliban: Articles, audio, video, in-depth analysis from CNN.com Asia.
Analysis: Who are the Taleban?: BBC analyzes who the Taliban are and why they have the support of Afghans.
Bush Gives Taliban $10 Million To Fight Opium: Brief, critical article from NOW's Womensenews.
Guardian Unlimited: Mullah Omar - in his own words: Translated text of a Voice of America interview of the Taliban leader.
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)
Journalism under the Taliban: Committee to Protect Journalists discusses how Afghan journalists do their jobs.
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.
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.
Taliban Explains Buddha Demolition: Why the Islamic government in Afghanistan destroyed art objects.
Taliban: War for War's Sake: New York Times article focusing primarily on the destruction of art objects by the Taliban.
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: The official Taliban Website last updated in August 2001, reconstructed for research purposes by the Afghan Historical Society.
The Taliban - A Factsheet: History and information about the Taliban in Afghanistan from Oddsworld. Links to related websites.
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.
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.
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.
Who are the Taliban?: Report by AsiaSource, with links to news articles and commentary.
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.