Secluded in his stronghold in southern Afghanistan, reclusive Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is the cornerstone of the movement that has ruled the country unchallenged since ...

Since the Taliban captured power in August 2021, Akhundzada has issued dozens of edicts curbing women and girls’ access to education, workplaces, and public life and spaces at large, which the Haqqani ...

The Taliban's Ministry of Education announced that the new academic year in Afghanistan will start on Thursday, March 20, in ...

Women in Afghanistan are living in one of the cruellest regimes on earth. But a movement is stirring at a grassroots level, ...

Afghanistan's radical Taliban leaders on ... seeking arrest warrants for the reclusive Taliban supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, and a close associate, accusing them both of being ...

The Taliban’s reclusive leader has made a rare visit to a university in Afghanistan in his first known trip to a modern education institution. Hibatullah Akhundzada spoke of the importance of ...

Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Ali Amin Gandapur, has said that negotiating with the Taliban is necessary for establishing lasting peace in the region. Talking to journalists at an ...

The group was travelling to attend a meeting of the Afghanistan Future Thought ... and figures loyal to Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, the report said, citing sources.