The Taliban leader said executions were part of Islam, days after four men were killed by gunfire in Afghanistan after they were convicted of murder.

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The U.N. says more than half of people detained by the Taliban's morality police in the first 6 months of new laws regulating personal conduct were men who had noncompliant hairstyles or their barbers ...

Mohammad Wali and Mohammad Anwar were convicted of separate murder cases, with the executions approved by the Taliban's supreme leader. Senior officials oversaw the event, defending it as ...

All execution orders are signed by the Taliban's reclusive Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada who resides in the movement's heartland of Kandahar. In 2022, Akhundzada ordered judges to fully ...

These executions took place in three cities across the country, before tens of thousands of spectators on Friday. This was ...

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These executions are typically carried out after approval from Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Taliban, and often end with a family member of the victim shooting the convicted person. These ...