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.

In January, one senior official left Afghanistan after speaking out against the ban, which has denied education to more than ...

The Taliban's leader said there is "no need" for Western laws in Afghanistan, noting that democracy is dead as long as there are sharia laws.

The move comes days after US officials met with the Taliban government to secure the release of an American tourist.

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 ...

Four men were publicly executed in Afghanistan on Friday, the Supreme Court said, the highest number of executions to be ...

Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, recently said there was no need for Western laws in Afghanistan and that democracy was dead as long as sharia laws are in effect. “There is no need for ...

Hassan Abbas, a professor at the National Defense University in Washington D.C. and author of the “Return of the Taliban,” said Akhundzada stressed the importance of unity from a religious perspective ...

However, all execution orders are signed by the Taliban's reclusive Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, who lives in the movement's heartland of Kandahar. Akhundzada ordered judges in 2022 to ...

The Afghan Taliban's supreme leader on Thursday strongly condemned the Israeli attacks and urged the Muslim world to support the Palestinian people against Israel. During his traditional annual ...