He was an Islamic judge of the Sharia courts of the 1996–2001 Taliban government. He was chosen to lead the Taliban’s shadow court system at the start of the Taliban insurgency, and remained in that post until being elected supreme leader of the Taliban in May 2016.

Jan 23, 2025 · 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 ...

6 days ago · FILE - A poster of Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is seen along a road in Kabul on Aug. 14, 2023. The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Akhundzada and his ...

Hibatullah Akhundzada: Afghanistan's Reclusive Taliban Leader. By . Claire Gounon. Share. Resize. Reprints. The Barron's news department was not involved in the creation of the content above. This ...

Jun 17, 2024 · Hibatullah Akhundzada gave his warning in a sermon to mark the festival of Eid al-Adha at a mosque in southern Kandahar province, weeks before a Taliban delegation goes to Doha, Qatar for U.N.-hosted talks on Afghanistan.

Sep 7, 2021 · Who Is Haibatullah Akhundzada, The Taliban’s 'Supreme Leader' Of Afghanistan? The Afghan Taliban has named a reclusive, hard-line Sunni cleric as its supreme leader in a still-unrecognized...

Hibatullah Akhundzada (Pashto: هَبَّتِ اللَّهُ اخْنُدَزَادَهُ ‎; born 26 March 1957) is an Afghan politician, soldier, scholar, cleric, and jurist who is the 2nd and the current Supreme Leader of Afghanistan since 2021 and as well as the 3rd Leader of the Taliban since 2016 following a drone that strike killed his ...

Sep 7, 2021 · Hibatullah Akhundzada became the supreme commander of the Taliban in May 2016, and is now leader of the so-called Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

Aug 15, 2023 · Two years since the Taliban took over again, Afghanistan is in the hands of Hibatullah Akhundzada, known as the Amir Al Mu'mineen, or "Commander of the Faithful." But despite the prominence...

Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, [b] also spelled Haibatullah Akhunzada, [c] is an Afghan cleric who is the supreme leader of Afghanistan in the internationally unrecognized Taliban regime. He has led the Taliban since 2016, and came to power with its victory over U.S.-backed forces in the 2001–2021 war .