Taliban leader Mullah Nooruddin Turabi poses for a photo in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept.... In an

punishments such as executions and amputations will resume in Afghanistan. Mullah Nooruddin Turabi

Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, Taliban official in charge of prisons, has said the in-power militants

Minister Mullah Hasan Akhund has been replaced by his deputy.... Earlier in the day, reports of the

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, former head of the Taliban political office who was named deputy prime

Ending 20 years of exile, he was thronged by well-wishers as he stepped off a Qatari government aircraft and drove off in a convoy. Baradar, who is in his early 50s, was born in the southern Uruzgan province.... Baradar, Omar and other Taliban leaders fled into neighboring Pakistan.In the ensuing years, the Taliban were able to organize a potent insurgency based in rugged and semi-autonomous tribal areas along the border.... Baradar's removal empowered more radical leaders within the Taliban w

Ending 20 years of exile, he was thronged by well-wishers as he stepped off a Qatari government aircraft and drove off in a convoy.... Now, she owns it too The vice president says she was the last person in the room to advise President Biden when he decided earlier this year to pull out from Afghanistan.... Advertisement During the group’s five-year rule, the president and governing council were based in Kabul....

“ No one will tell us what our laws should be.... For convicted thieves, the punishment was amputation of a hand.... For those convicted of highway robbery, a hand and a foot were amputated. Trials and convictions were rarely public and the judiciary was weighted in favor of Islamic clerics, whose knowledge of the law was limited to religious injunctions....

Fighters of the Haqqani network secure an area during a demonstration organized by the Afghan Society of Muslim Youth, demanding the release of frozen international money in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept.... Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a pharmacy on the side of the square, told The Associated Press that four bodies were brought to the square and three bodies were moved to other squares in the city to be displayed.... Seddiqi said the Taliban announced in the square that the four were caught ta

( Reuters)-Taliban authorities in the western Afghan city of Herat killed four alleged kidnappers and hung their bodies up in public to deter others, a local government official said on Saturday. Sher Ahmad Ammar, deputy governor of Herat, said the men had kidnapped a local businessman and his son and intended to take them out of the city, when they were seen by patrols that had set up checkpoints around the city.An exchange of gunfire ensued in which all four were killed, while one Taliban sold