Taliban: militant Islam, oil and fundamentalism in Central Asia

Kandahar 1994: the origins of the Taliban

Herat 1995: God's invincible soldiers

Kabul 1996: commander of the faithful

Mazar-e-Sharif 1997: massacre in the north

Bamiyan 1998-99: the never-ending war

Challenging Islam: the new-style fundamentalism of the Taliban

Secret society: the Taliban's political and military organization

A vanished gender: women, children and Taliban culture

High on heroin: drugs and the Taliban economy

Global jihad: the Arab-Afghans and Osama Bin Laden

Dictators and oil barons: the Taliban and Central Asia, Russia, Turkey and Israel

Romancing the Taliban 1: the battle for pipelines 1994-96

Romancing the Taliban 2: the battle for pipelines 1997-99: the USA and the Taliban

Master or victim: Pakistan's Afghan war

Shia and Sunni: Iran and Saudi Arabia

Conclusion: the future of Afghanistan.