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

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’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 ...

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.

A senior Taliban minister, who publicly condemned the group’s ban on education of girls and women, has reportedly fled ...

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 ...

He emphasized that depriving 20 million women of education was unjust. Following these remarks, Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada allegedly ordered his arrest and imposed a travel ban.

Akhundzada inherited the Taliban leadership in May 2016 after a US drone strike in Pakistan killed his predecessor. Believed to be in his 60s or 70s, the reclusive supreme leader rules by decree ...