The Taliban leader once warned of a split: A BBC investigation reveals how attitudes to women, the internet and religion are ...

A suicide attack that killed the Taliban minister of refugees and repatriation, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, in December 2024, ...

Report claims Hibatullah Akhundzada ‘spooked’ by possibility of schism between his hardline base in south, more pragmatic ...

As Afghanistan enters 2026, deep fractures inside the Taliban leadership threaten the regime's grip on power in part due to ...

Differences among the Taliban are natural; the movement has various power centres. While Mullah Akhundzada may reign supreme, Siraj Haqqani has considerable power, being the scion of veteran ...

Khadija Ahmadzada was detained for being in "violation" of rules "regarding women's sports gyms", a Taliban spokesman said.

Kabul – A speech attributed to Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has laid bare internal differences within ...

A leaked speech by Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada highlights divisions between hardline Kandahar loyalists and pragmatic Kabul ministers, raising questions about governance and the movement’s ...

Interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani has weirdly become the unlikely champion of what passes for ‘reform,’ if such a word can ...

Aghanistan is a country most of us would rather forget. I learnt that the hard way a couple of years ago when I returned there and suggested that the West should re-engage with the Taliban. Few wanted ...

The Taliban killed several protesters during rare public unrest provoked by a Chinese-funded gold mine in northern Afghanistan.

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has repeatedly warned that it is not external, but rather the threat of internal divisions, that pose the gravest threat to the survival of the Islamic Emirate, ...