1. Army

2. Air Force
     1995 Airstan incident    Taliban Civil Avation    Inventory  

3. Conscription
     Kidnapping foreigners    Conscription of children  

4. References

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Army

The Taliban maintained a military during their period of control. The Taliban army possessed over 400 T-54/55 and T-62 tanks and more than 200 armoured personnel carriers.^[1] The Afghan Army inherited over 600 T-62 tanks.^[2]

Air Force

The Afghan Air Force under the Taliban maintained five supersonic MiG-21MFs and 10 Sukhoi-22 fighter-bombers.^[3] In 1995, during the 1995 Airstan incident, a Taliban fighter plane captured a Russian transport. They also held six Mil Mi-8 helicopters, five Mi-35s, five L-39Cs, six An-12s, 25 An-26s, a dozen An-24/32s, an IL-18, and a Yakovlev.^[4] Their civil air service contained two Boeing 727A/Bs, a Tu-154, five An-24s, and a DHC-6.^[4]

The Afghan Air Force under the Taliban did not see action in the Afghan Civil War and almost all aircraft were destroyed by the US in the War in Afghanistan (2001–present). Most of the MiG-21 fleet met their end in an Afghan junkyard. The roundel of most of the aircraft was a washed over DRAAF Roundel with the green paint of the Taliban.^[5][6]

1995 Airstan incident

On 3 August 1995 a Taliban Air Force MiG-21 aircraft forced the Russian aircraft to land at Kandahar.^[7][8] Negotiations between the Russian government and the Taliban to free the men stalled for over a year and efforts by American senator Hank Brown to mediate between the two parties broke down over a prisoner exchange.^[9] The Taliban stated that they would free the airmen if the Russians released Afghans held by the Russian government.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} However the Russians denied holding any Afghan citizens.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} Brown was able to get the Taliban to agree that the Russian crew should be allowed to maintain their aircraft.^[9] This request paved the way for their escape.^[9]

Taliban Civil Avation

Ariana Afghan Airlines contained two Boeing 727A/Bs, a Tu-154, five An-24s, and a DHC-6 under the Taliban. Ariana was restricted to domestic destinations.

Inventory

Conscription

Kidnapping foreigners

Prior to the collapse of their regime the Taliban made widespread use of conscription, and according to some of the Guantanamo captives, kidnapping and virtual slavery.

Conscription of children

According to a report from Oxford University the Taliban made widespread use of the conscription of children in 1997, 1998 and 1999.^[11] The report states that during the civil war that preceded the Taliban regime thousands of orphaned boys joined various militia for "employment, food, shelter, protection and economic opportunity." The report said that during its initial period the Taliban "long depended upon cohorts of youth". Witnesses stated that each land-owning family had to provide one young man and $500 in expenses. In August of that year 5000 students aged between 15 and 35 left madrassas in Pakistan to join the Taliban.

References

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