After the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, Al-Zawahiri emerged as the second most popular leader of the terrorist o...

Acting Minister of Defence Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob told reporters at a news conference in Kabul that American drones have been entering Afgh...

Russian Special Representative on Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov on Tuesday said that Moscow is now ready to receive delegates from Afghanistan ...

The message from one of the Taliban's most senior ministers underlines the problems Afghanistan's new rulers have sometimes had in controll...

China made the 180-day extension proposal to the India-headed committee and insisted on its adoption, but other members wanted Taliban unde...

Main Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir will be deputy defence minister, while Sadr Ibrahim was named depu...

As they transition from militant force to governing power, the Taliban are already facing opposition to their rule, with scattered protests...

Hailing from the spiritual Taliban heartland of Kandahar, Akhund served as governor of the key province during the group’s brutal first rei...

Mullah Hasan is presently head of the Taliban's powerful decision-making body - Rehbari Shura or leadership council - which serves much lik...

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...

Baradar, who heads the Taliban's political office in Doha, will be joined by Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the son of late Taliban co-founder Mul...

Prominent Taliban members, who are against women rights and are extremists, were hunted down for 20 years by world best intelligence agenci...

Most Afghans — as well as foreign governments, aid agencies, donors and investors — will be rooting for Doha over Islamabad. Memories of ho...

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

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...

As head of a newly united military wing, 30-year-old Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, brings his father's fiercely uncompromising reputation to the ...

The Taliban last week launched a major operation in Zabul province of Afghanistan, killing several members of the new breakaway faction.