A report issued this week by the United Nations Sanctions Monitoring Team, based on U.N. member state intelligence, said there is “growing confidence” that the IS caliph is Abdul Qadir Mumin ...

One major reason behind the move is the ongoing internal power struggle between the Haqqani network and figures loyal to Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, the report said, citing sources.

She looked so regal the entire night.” Thus said Marin Elizabeth Trepagnier about the 2025 queen of the Caliphs of Cairo, which held its annual bal masqué in the Royal Tent of the New Orleans ...

Karim Khan identified the suspects as the Taliban supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, and his chief justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani, saying his action is based on a thorough investigation and ...

Karim Khan said he had asked the ICC to approve arrest warrants for the group’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and Supreme Court head Abdul Hakim Haqqani who have been accused of crimes ...

On January 23, 2025, the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed two applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber II in the Situation in ...

Even then, there isn’t likely to be any immediate action. Akhundzada rarely leaves his base in Kandahar and Haqqani is unlikely to risk arrest by traveling. In a time of both misinformation and ...

Queen Toda approached Córdoba’s great ruler, the caliph ’Abd al-Rahman III, with two bold requests: help with a cure for her grandson’s morbid obesity and military support to regain the throne.

Muslims who wanted to select his successor, or Caliph, by following the traditional Arab custom (Sunna) formed into a group known as Sunnis. Others insisted the Prophet had designated his cousin ...

In Afghanistan, a prominent cleric Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani has been killed in a suicide bomb blast attack in Kabul.

The inner circle in Medina chose Abu Bakr, the Prophet’s father-in-law and one of his oldest friends and allies, as caliph (in Arabic khalifah, ‘successor’ and ‘representative’). He died two years ...