The Afghan Taliban confirmed that a U.S. drone strike killed their leader last week, and they announced his successor: Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, an extremist scholar without military experience.

The Afghan Taliban confirmed on Wednesday that their leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a U.S. drone strike last week and that they have appointed a successor — a scholar known for ...

The Taliban’s new leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, is being described as a “hardline religious scholar” who issues most of the group’s fatwas, as well as “well-educated and respected ...

The Taliban appointed religious council chief Maulavi Haibatullah as their new leader following the death of their former head in a U.S. drone strike last week.

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 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 ...

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.

Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership on Tuesday rolled out a new “caretaker government” dominated by longtime members of the Islamist insurgency now in charge in Kabul, including at least one ...

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’s leaders are rarely seen at public events and do not readily grant interviews or hold news conferences. Many of them move in the shadows, their whereabouts unknown, inevitably ...

The Taliban’s leaders are rarely seen at public events and do not readily grant interviews or hold news conferences. Many of them move in the shadows, their whereabouts unknown, inevitably ...