at a time when Sirajuddin Haqqani was the right hand man of Taliban ‘supreme leader’ Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada. The report revealed that when Pakistan launched airstrikes in Afghanistan on ...

The Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021 in a lightning offensive, ousting the government of Ashraf Ghani government after the US ... Currently, the hardline Kandahari faction, led by ...

Internal conflicts within the Taliban have now become more visible. The group’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has deployed his loyal fighters to key strategic locations in Kabul ...

Kabul (AFP) – Secluded in his stronghold in southern Afghanistan, reclusive Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is the cornerstone of the movement that has ruled the country ...

Akhundzada has made only a handful of public appearances since inheriting the leadership of the Taliban in May 2016 -- days after his predecessor was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan.