"We assure our neighbours, the region and the world that we will not allow anyone to use our territory to threaten the security of other co...

The Taliban leadership today is different from the one-man rule of Mullah Mohammad Omar, the reclusive founder of the Taliban movement in t...

Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada addressed supporters in the southern city of Kandahar, officials announced Sunday, his first ...

Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman, said Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, former head of the Taliban political office who was named deputy prim...

According to various reports, Baradar is either dead, grievously injured or maintaining a low-profile. Which of these is actually true, no ...

The Taliban seem to have calculated that the West’s wishful thinking and desire to move on from two decades of bloody conflict would be eno...

Here are some details of individuals named by sources as being senior members of the new administration. Their exact roles have yet to be c...

The Taliban’s senior officials were gathering in the Afghan capital on Saturday for talks with elders and politicians on forming a governme...

The Taliban completed their sudden advance across the country as U.S.-led forces pulled out, coinciding with what German Chancellor Angela ...

The inner workings and leadership of the group have long been shrouded in secrecy -- even during their rule from 1996 to 2001 -- but here i...

While Haibatullah Akhundzada is the Taliban's overall leader, Baradar is its political chief and its most public face. He was said to be on...

Taliban had named Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada, a conservative cleric in his 50s, as its new leader after Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour ...

India wants UN to look into deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan and the means to contain it as it poses serious threats to the ...

"I think it's fair to say they are surprised by the Republican nominee," Obama said, referring to Trump.

Mansour was targeted by drones operated by US special forces in Balochistan's Noshki district on May 21 when he headed towards Quetta in a ...

Afghanistan's Haqqani network militant group posted a statement Sunday backing the appointment of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour whos...