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.

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 ...

The Taliban issued a glowing eulogy for Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, the group’s second emir, to mark the ninth ...

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 ...

The Taliban were founded on an ideology dictating that women should play only the most circumscribed roles in society. During the Taliban’s first regime in the 1990s, they barred women and girls ...

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 ...

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 top Taliban leader has slammed President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Afghans, calling the United States an “oppressor.” ...

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 ...