All three said there was a growing divide between ultra-conservative Taliban members in the southern city of Kandahar, where the group’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, lives, and more ...

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The Taliban's supreme leader said Sunday there is "no need" for Western laws in Afghanistan, noting that democracy is dead as long as sharia laws are in place. Hibatullah Akhundzada was speaking ...

Diplomatic rhetoric must turn to action to support the more than 20 million women and girls living under the Taliban regime.

"Afghanistan exported 3,632 tons of carpet worth 15.2 million U.S. dollars in the year 1403 (in the Persian calendar ...

Rights groups and the U.N. condemned the killings. Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has previously rejected the need for Western laws in Afghanistan. In an audio clip released Sunday by the ...

Photo by MOHSEN KARIMI/AFP via Getty Images But the Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has emphasized the primacy of Islamic law and the role of the Ministry of Vice and Virtue in reforming ...

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Hibatullah Akhundzada was speaking during a sermon marking Eid al-Fitr, an Islamic holiday, at the Eidgah Mosque in the southern city of Kandahar. "There is no need for laws that originate from ...

Rights groups and the U.N. condemned the killings. Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has previously rejected the need for Western laws in Afghanistan. In an audio clip released Sunday by the ...