For more information, see also the Monitor's posts on tribal militias, al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the Haqqani Network and peace processes.
Last updated: August 2010
Table of Contents
Taliban
Hezb-i Islami Gulbuddin
Hezb-i-Islami Khalis
Al-Qaeda
Peace Processes
- Background: CBC; Globalsecurity.org; Military Review; CTC Sentinel; Library of Canadian Parliament
- The Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan – Organization, Leadership, and Worldview, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), 5 February 2010
- The Quetta Shura Taliban in Southern Afghanistan: Organization, Operations, and Shadow Governance, Institute for the Study of War, 4 January 2010
- The Taliban Biography: The Structure and Leadership of the Taliban 1996-2002, National Security Archive, 13 November 2009
- Who Are the Taliban?, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 22 October 2009
- The Taliban in Afghanistan, Council on Foreign Relations, 3 August 2009
- Hekmatyar faction, or HiG
- Wikipedia
- Khalis faction, or HIK
- Globalsecurity.org
Al-Qaeda (or 'AQAM': Al-Qaeda and Associated Movements)
- Wikipedia
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Al Qaeda’s Allies: Explaining the Relationship Between Al-Qaeda and Various Factions of the Taliban After 2001, New America Foundation, 19 April 2010
- Al-Qaeda Central: An Assessment of the Threat Posed by the Terrorist Group Headquartered on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border, New America Foundation, 25 February 2010
See also Chapter 4 of 'Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan', RAND Corporation, 9 June 2008
Further reading:
- How Tribal Are the Taleban? Afghanistan’s Largest Insurgent Movement Between Its Tribal Roots and Islamist Ideology, The Afghanistan Analysts Network, June 2010
- The Northern Front: The Afghan Insurgency Spreading Beyond the Pashtuns, The Afghanistan Analysts Network, June 2010
- Negotiating with the Taliban: Issues and Prospects, The Century Foundation, June 2010
- Rebuilding Afghanistan’s Political Immunity, United States Institute of Peace, June 2010
- The Prospects for Security and Political Reconciliation in Afghanistan: Local, National, and Regional Perspectives, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs / John F. Kennedy School of Government / Harvard University, May 2010
