With the Taliban set to secure their grip on Afghanistan and declare a new government in the coming days, little is known about the group's leader. The Taliban recently secured their control of ...

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for two top Taliban leaders. The court accuses them of ...

The International Criminal Court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two top Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting girls and women in Afghanistan.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday for two top Taliban officials over a plethora of allegations of crimes against women and young girls. The court, based in the Hague, ...

Taliban have imposed harsh measures that range from banning women from public places to girls from attending school beyond ...

In 2016, when Mullah Masoor died, they decided that Akhundzada would become the Supreme Leader after three days of discussions among Taliban leaders. His deputies would be Sirajuddin Haqqani and ...

The Taliban’s leadership structure has long been a mystery, with little known about how it works beyond the group’s most influential figures. CNN values your feedback 1.

The Taliban are preparing to set out their new Islamic government imminently, naming Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, the insurgency’s top religious leader, as the country’s supreme authority ...

Questions are mounting in Afghanistan after two senior Taliban leaders — the group’s supreme leader and new deputy prime minister — have vanished from public view, sparking speculation one ...

The Taliban, an extremist Islamic group that governed Afghanistan until ousted by U.S. troops in 2001, has had a quick succession of leaders recently.

Akhundzada became leader of the Taliban—called the emir—in 2016 following the death of the previous leader, Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, in a drone strike on May 21 that year.

Judges say Taliban's leader, top justice 'severely deprived' women and girls of their basic rights since seizing power; ...