A realignment inside the Taliban, an unspoken preference for U.S. partnership and a recognition that isolation is a dead end ...

Rights groups and the U.N. condemned the killings. Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has previously rejected the need for Western laws in Afghanistan. In an audio clip released Sunday by the ...

Photo by MOHSEN KARIMI/AFP via Getty Images But the Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has emphasized the primacy of Islamic law and the role of the Ministry of Vice and Virtue in reforming ...

The Taliban government's education ministry cites strengthening discipline, masking social inequalities and promoting what ...

The rule -- ordered by the Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada -- took time to be enforced and is still implemented unevenly across the country. In western Herat, student Nassir Ahmad ...

The Afghan Taliban, in line with their hardline Islamic fundamentalist teachings, have reinforced their media ban on the ...

The Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has emphasized the primacy of Islamic law and the role of the Ministry of Vice and Virtue in reforming Afghan society and its people. In a message issued ...