The Taliban government has announced the termination of Afghanistan’s membership in the Rome Statute following a request from ...

Japanese officials say senior Afghan Taliban officials are in Japan for talks, as part of Tokyo’s efforts to help Afghanistan ...

Arrest warrant issued for deputy foreign minister as figures in Afghanistan government criticise supreme leader’s stance on ...

AKBAR GANJI is an Iranian journalist. A former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, he became a political ...

Hibatullah Akhundzada's assertions came days after the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced he was ...

The Taliban leader has made a rare visit to a university in Afghanistan in his first known trip to a modern education institution.

The government is trying other negotiating tactics. Since September 2023 some 815,000 Afghans have been evicted from Pakistan ...

However, several reports in Afghan media outlets based outside Afghanistan have said Stanekzai left the country soon after Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada ordered his arrest and ...

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai created a flutter by calling on the Taliban to reopen secondary schools to girls during a televised speech.

"There is no excuse for this not now and not in the future," The Guardian quoted Stanikzai as saying. "We are being unjust to 20 million people," he added.

Shortly after the speech, the Taliban’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada reportedly ordered Mr Stanikzai’s arrest and ...

Shortly after the speech, the Taliban’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada reportedly ordered Mr Stanikzai’s arrest and issued a travel ban against him, prohibiting him from stepping back in ...