The Taliban papers: Terror from within

What drives a person to authorize a suicide bombing? And what drives others to carry them out? These questions brought war correspondent Magda Gad to Afghanistan in the fall of 2018.

She found answers in places beyond government control, in secret meetings with wanted men – the Taliban leaders and the young warriors willing to die for them.

This is the story of a long lasting conflict, told from a perspective rarely heard – that of the Taliban.

It is also an analysis of a global future scenario that could become worse than anything we have seen so far.