Hibatullah Akhundzada's assertions came days after the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced he was ...

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada visited Kandahar University, urging a harmony between religious and modern education.

The Taliban’s reclusive leader has made a rare visit to a university in Afghanistan in his first known trip to a modern education institution. Hibatullah Akhundzada spoke of the importance of worldly ...

One major reason behind the move is the ongoing internal power struggle between the Haqqani network and figures loyal to ...

The Taliban have released just one photograph of Akhundzada. It shows him with a greying beard and white turban looking directly at the camera, and was taken more than two decades ago, according ...

Internal conflicts within the Taliban have now become more visible. The group's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has ...

By targeting the Taliban, the ICC warrants challenge their system of gender apartheid and affirm that Afghan women and girls ...

The requested warrants target Haibatullah Akhundzada, the reclusive Kandahar-based leader of the Taliban, and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, the group’s chief justice. Karim Khan, the ICC prosecutor ...

Akhundzada has made only a handful of public appearances since inheriting the leadership of the Taliban in May 2016 -- days after his predecessor was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan.

Secluded in his stronghold in southern Afghanistan, reclusive Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is the cornerstone of the movement that has ruled the country unchallenged since ...