Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the country’s supreme leader, is battling a rebellion from senior cabinet ministers over his ban on girls’ education and restrictions on women’s economic ...

February 13, 2025 • The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has been the subject of a series of presidential orders and memos that have left uncertainty about how it operates. February 13 ...

Taliban elements contributed to the arrest of Taliban leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, the group's judge, helped the judiciary. Karim Khan, the senior prosecutor of the ...

Hibatullah Akhundzada's assertions came days after the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced he was seeking arrest warrants for the reclusive Taliban leader ...

But the latest comments marked his first call for a change in policy and a direct appeal to Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada. Ibraheem Bahiss, an analyst with Crisis Group’s South Asia program, ...

February 16, 2025 • Many of the victims were Hindu pilgrims who were traveling to the Maha Kumbh festival in northern India. Thousands of people were gathered at the New Delhi railway station ...