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 new Taliban movement has created a parallel government structure that includes defense and finance councils and appoints judges and officials in some areas.

How long the Taliban will keep these groups under this manufactured Islamic banner, no one can say. But if U.S. policy accounts for these ethnic differences within the Taliban structure, it can ...

The Taliban leader doesn’t oversee a clear power structure. The group does not have a public set of rules for running the day-to-day administrative work within its rank and file, and its members ...

Nearly four years after the Taliban’s reconquest of Afghanistan, Moscow has formally recognized the Taliban regime as the ...

Sept 7 (Reuters) - The Taliban on Tuesday announced, opens new tab key acting ministerial positions. Akhund is the longtime head of Taliban’s powerful decision-making body, opens new tab Rehbari ...

The architecture of the Taliban’s leadership structure is increasingly exclusionary, which comes at the cost of domestic political legitimacy. At their core, the Taliban is Pashtun-dominated, the ...

First, after weathering the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and giving sufficient space to the Taliban to entrench their grip on power in Afghanistan by maintaining a low profile, al-Qaida is now ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — In June, when the Taliban took the district of Imam Sahib in Afghanistan’s north, the insurgent commander who now ruled the area had a message for his new constituents ...

While the US State Department continues to engage in high-level diplomatic talks with the Taliban in the neutral setting of Doha, Qatar, as it has for the past year, the real negotiations have ...

The Taliban would also reach out to former pilots and soldiers from the Afghan armed forces to join its ranks, Waheedullah Hashimi, who has access to the group's decision-making, added in an ...