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

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.

Deputy Prime Minister for Administrative Affairs Abdul Salam Hanafi says if anyone attempts to interfere in the internal ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC), on which US President Donald Trump has imposed sanctions, seeks to investigate and ...

Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, who is reported to have fled to Dubai after criticising the education ban and the Taliban’s leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada. (photo credit: Sefa Karacan/Anadolu/Getty ...

Internal conflicts within the Taliban have now become more visible. The group’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has deployed his loyal fighters to key strategic locations in Kabul ...

After his speech and reports of his criticisms, the Taliban’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada reportedly ordered the minister’s arrest and imposed a travel ban. This led Stanikzai to flee ...

it’s thought that Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada ordered his arrest in Kandahar and issued him a travel ban. But before he could be detained, Stanikzai managed to escape to the United Arab ...

One of the few officials in Afghanistan’s Taliban government to support reversing the ban on girls’ education appears to have been forced to flee the country. It was just two weeks ago that Mohammad ...

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 ...