The statement came after Karim Khan, the ICC chief prosecutor, last month sought two arrest warrants for Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, Afghanistan’s ...

Akhundzada, who has led the Taliban since 2016 and is now Afghanistan’s de-facto leader, is at odds with Sirajuddin Haqqani, the interior minister, Mullah Yaqoob, the defence minister ...

Mr. Ahmad is a counterterrorism research scholar and author of the Taliban Leadership Tracker at the Middle East Institute. President Trump has promised a bold new American approach to the world.

Mr. Ahmad is a counterterrorism research scholar and author of the Taliban Leadership Tracker at the Middle East Institute. President Trump has promised a bold new American approach to the world.

Afghanistan rejected disbanding its Ministry of Vice and Virtue ... decades of war against the United States and its allies, the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan in August 2021, and since ...

A Taliban government delegation was visiting Japan for the first time on Monday, in a rare diplomatic visit outside of the region. The Afghan delegation left Kabul on Saturday, in a visit that ...

Pakistan's long-held assertion that the Afghan Taliban continue to provide support to the banned TTP has now been validated by a recent United Nations report. Despite Islamabad's repeated ...

When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, there was optimism that the Taliban 2.0 would be different from their first term. When the Taliban government was overthrown by ...

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 ...

Karim Khan said there were reasonable grounds to suspect that Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and chief ... and ongoing persecution by the Taliban. "Our action signals that the status ...

The Taliban is facing an internal revolt over women’s rights that has become public and could lead to a full-blown conflict ...

A Montana judge on Wednesday struck down a state law defining sex in binary terms, finding that the law violated the Montana Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and privacy. Judge Leslie ...