Access
The Taliban Sources Repository is a non-profit venture and access to the collection is free of charge.
The archive is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore access as soon as possible.
About the repository
The Taliban Sources Project (TSP) is one of few Taliban documentation projects in existence and is the only collection to include the cultural, social, and legal output for the years 1979-2011.
Compiled between 2006 and 2011 by researchers based in southern Afghanistan, the TSP collection is one of only a few such private documentation projects in existence, and is the only collection to include Taliban’s cultural, social and legal output for the years 1979-2011.
Original documents and English translations
Researchers can now search and view English translations as well as the original Pashto, Dari and (in some cases) Arabic. The material includes:
- Full runs of dozens of official newspapers and magazines
- Works of poetry
- Maps
- Night letters
- Press releases
- Transcripts of radio broadcasts
- Memoirs
- Government publications
Government publications include the Taliban’s own foreign press monitor and multiple volumes of Taliban laws and edicts.
Background
The TSP was initially started by Thesigers, which processed and translated the materials presented on this website over a two-year period (2013-2015), in order to ensure the survival and public accessibility of this unique corpus of primary sources.
The Taliban Sources Project (TSP) was launched online in 2020 by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) in cooperation with the University of Oslo.
Quoting
If you use any of the material in the collection, please include a reference to the Taliban Sources Project at FFI/UiO.
Example
Mohammad Omar, “Eulogy of Martyr of the Islamic Umma Mujahed Abu Mosaab Zarqawi,” 1 June 2006, Al-Somood 1, no. 1 (June 2006), accessed via Taliban Sources Project at FFI/UiO, https://tsp.hf.uio.no.