The Taliban’s leader said there was no need for Western laws in Afghanistan and that democracy was dead as long as sharia ...

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 ...

Hassan Abbas, a professor at the National Defense University in Washington D.C. and author of the “Return of the Taliban,” said Akhundzada stressed the importance of unity from a religious perspective ...

During his traditional annual message ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada called the Israeli attacks and bombing on the Palestinian people a "great injustice and ...