3. • Leaders
Mullah Mohammed Omar (founder and spiritual leader)
• Area of operations
Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan
• Strength
45,000 (2001 est.)
11,000 (2008 est.)
36,000 (2010 est.)
• Originated as
Students of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
4. • Allies
Haqqani network
Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
Sipah-e-Sahaba
Islamic Emirate of Waziristan
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
East Turkestan Islamic Movement
Al-Qaeda
Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
Jamaat-e-Islamic
Caucasian Front
5. • Opponents
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
International Security Assistance Force
Islamic Republic of Iran
United States
6.
7. • The rise of the Taliban started in 1979
when troops from the Soviet Union, an
area that consisted of Russia and 15 other
countries, invaded Afghanistan to attempt
to set up communism.
8. Communism is
something that we will
discuss
In short, it is an
economic system where
everyone gets paid the
same amount of money
regardless of what jobs
they have.
A doctor gets paid the
same as a street sweeper
9. Over 100,000 soviet troops
were sent in to control the
cities and towns and set up
communism.
The people and army of
Afghanistan did not have
the appropriate means for
defeating the Soviet Union
without some help.
10. The help came in the
form of the United
States.
The United States did
not actually come to
fight the Soviets, they
provided the Afghani
soldiers, the
Mujahideen, with
weapons, especially
Anti-Aircraft weapons.
US is against the
Soviets
11. The reason the United
States helped
Afghanistan was because
the U.S. and the Soviet
Union were enemies but
there was no direct
fighting and were
involved in the Cold War.
This was a long on-
going political and
military tension between
the two countries.
12. With the help of
the U.S. weapons
(the Stinger), the
Soviets withdrew
their forces on
February 15, 1989
after nine years of
Soviet occupation
13. After the Soviets left, the
Mujahideen set up a new
government.
However, a civil war
broke out between many
of the different political
and military groups of
the country.
The Taliban, religious
scholars, made their
move to power in 1994
14. The Taliban continued to
get stronger and
stronger and in 1996,
captured Afghanistan’s
capital city, Kabul.
The Taliban had success
in eliminating
corruption, fixing the
economy, and restoring
peace.
15. The Taliban however
brought this about
through a very strict
interpretation of the
Sharia, Islamic Law.
Public executions and
punishments became
regular events.
Television, music, and
the Internet were all
banned and all men
were ordered to grow
beards.
16. Most shocking to the west was the
Taliban’s treatment of women.
Women were not allowed to
go to school.
Women were not allowed to
work outside of the house.
Women were prohibited from
leaving the house without a
male relative as a chaperone.
This is known as Purdah (the
practice of keeping women
secluded so that they can’t be
see by men.
Women were not allowed to
go into shops.
17. Women who disobeyed
would be beaten or killed.
A women caught wearing
fingernail polish would
have her fingers chopped
off!
The Taliban said that this
was all to safeguard the
honor of women.
18. Although the Taliban
managed to reunite
most of Afghanistan,
they could not
completely end the
civil war and the
conditions worsened.
All of the following
things were very
scarce and hard to
come by
Food,Water,Jobs
19. The Taliban allowed terrorist
organizations to run training
camps within Afghanistan.
They allowed Osama bin Laden
and his Al-Qaeda organization
to be very close to the Taliban.
Bin Laden supported a global
jihad (holy war) and spoke out
in favor of attacks against the
United States and its allies.
After September 11, 2001 the
United States invaded the
country and dismantled the
Taliban.
