In 1994, Mullah Omar, Baradar and others founded the Taliban, which means religious students. The group mainly consisted of clerics and young, pious men, many of whom had been driven from their ...

Feared Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar — who was once nicknamed "Baradar the Butcher" — will lead the new Afghan government, sources within the militant group told Reuters.

Taliban co-founder and acting Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar appeared in a television interview Wednesday to refute rumors he had been injured or even killed in a dispute last ...

Mullah Mohammad Omar, the founder of the Taliban, spent the last years of his life hiding in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2013, a new report details. The U.S. government and the CIA, meanwhile ...

Rumors have circulated for years regarding the death of Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant Haqqani network, who had close ties to the Taliban and al-Qaida. Haqqani hadn't been heard from ...

Afghanistan's Taliban regime arrested a well-known education ... The United Nations mission in Afghanistan said Matiullah Wesa, the founder of the Pen Path organization which has spent more ...

The Taliban on Sunday revealed the final resting place of the movement's founder, Mullah Omar, whose death and burial they kept secret for years. Rumors surrounding Omar's health and whereabouts ...

The wagon was used by Mullah Mohammad Omar, the Taliban’s founding leader, to escape American troops in 2001. Omar relied on his humble Corolla to flee the city of Kandahar and escape to the ...

Khamosh, who founded the Afghan Women’s Justice Movement ... they can be punished with a warning or be arrested, with a Taliban spokesperson saying the new law would "be of great help in ...