KABUL: Religious scholar Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, named Wednesday as the Afghan Taliban's new leader, was a senior judge during the insurgent group's five-year rule over Afghanistan and issued many of its harsh verdicts.
KABUL: Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour took over as head of the insurgent movement last July following the revelation that the group's founder Mullah Omar had been dead for two years.
WASHINGTON: Spokesman of the United States State Department John Kirby has said that the country will participate in the quadrilateral Afghan peace process set to take place in Pakistan next week, ARY News reported.
KABUL: The Afghan Taliban Saturday said they would soon release an audio message from leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, in a bid to quash fevered speculation that he was killed in an internal firefight.
PESHAWAR: Mullah Omar, founder of the Afghan Taliban, died of natural causes in Afghanistan, his son said in a statement calling for unity and quashing rumours about his father's mysterious death amid a leadership dispute.
KABUL: The Taliban on Monday admitted covering up longtime leader Mullah Omar's death for more than two years, saying he died in 2013 as was first claimed by the Afghan intelligence.
KABUL: At least 20 Afghan cadets were killed when a suicide attacker blew himself up at the entrance of Kabul Police Academy on Friday, officials said.
The Afghan Taliban's newly appointed chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor is said to be in his mid-40s and from Afghanistan's Kandahar province in the country's southeastern Pashtun heartland -- close to the border with Pakistan.
KARACHI: In recent turn of affairs relating Mullah Omar's death, Jamat ud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has offered funeral prayers in absentia of the Taliban supremo, ARY News reported.
The Taliban on Thursday distanced itself from peace talks that had been expected this week with the Afghan government, while making no comment on Kabul's reported death of their leader Mullah Omar.
KABUL: Taliban supremo Mullah Omar died two years ago in Pakistan, Afghanistan said on Wednesday, after unnamed government and militant sources reported the demise of the reclusive warrior-cleric.
KABUL: Taliban leader Mullah Omar on Wednesday hailed as “legitimate” peace talks aimed at ending Afghanistan's 13-year war, in his first comments on the nascent dialogue, easing concerns that it lacked the leadership's backing.
KABUL: The head of Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, Mullah Omar, is alive and in touch with current events, the group has said in a 5,000 word document released to mark his nineteenth year of leadership.
KABUL: The Afghan Taliban Sunday published a descriptive biography of their "charismatic" supreme leader Mullah Omar, in a surprise move apparently aimed at countering the creeping influence of the Islamic State group within insurgent ranks.
DUBAI: Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahri on Wednesday announced the formation of an Indian branch of his militant group he said would spread Islamic rule and "raise the flag of jihad" across the subcontinent.