Sirajuddin Haqqani, the chief of the powerful Haqqani network which is part of the Afghan Taliban-led ruling regime in ...

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

Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi, head of Afghanistan’s Taxpayers Services Directorate, has the hard job of raising money in an ...

- Taliban authorities have said Afghan women will no longer be allowed into public and amusement parks. - Gyms and fitness centres for women have been banned across the country. - The Taliban ordered ...

Since the Taliban captured power in August 2021, Akhundzada has issued dozens of edicts curbing women and girls’ access to ...

The Taliban have released just one photograph of Akhundzada. It shows him with a greying beard and white turban looking directly at the camera, and was taken more than two decades ago, according ...

The decision follows the ICC chief prosecutor’s announcement last month, seeking arrest warrants for the reclusive Taliban supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, and a close associate ...

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 ...

Hibatullah Akhundzada's assertions came days after the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced he was seeking arrest warrants for the reclusive Taliban leader, holding him ...

The possibility of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI, projecting the narrative of internal clash in Taliban cannot be ruled ...

Akhundzada spoke about the value of knowledge and the importance of religious and modern education, according to Hashmi. The Taliban prioritize Islamic knowledge over basic secular literacy and ...