The Taliban leader says executions are part of Islam. That's after rights groups and the U.N. condemned the public executions of four men days earlier after they were convicted of murder.

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada defended executions as part of Islam, after four men were executed in Afghanistan. The ...

The Taliban's leader said there is "no need" for Western laws in Afghanistan, noting that democracy is dead as long as there are sharia laws.

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Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada declared that Western laws are unnecessary in Afghanistan, asserting that democracy is dead under sharia law.

Hibatullah Akhundzada, who seldom leaves the southern province of Kandahar and is rarely seen in public, urged people to rally behind the country’s security forces whose “hard work and ...

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada defended the recent public executions of four men convicted of murder, asserting they ...

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada stated that Afghanistan no longer requires Western laws. He expressed strong disapproval of the West, arguing that democracy has come to an end in Afghanistan.

Hibatullah Akhundzada made the comments in a sermon marking the Islamic holiday of Eid Al-Fitr, in the southern city of Kandahar's Eidgah Mosque. The 50-minute audio of his message was published ...