The Taliban's leader said there is "no need" for Western laws in Afghanistan, noting that democracy is dead as long as there are sharia laws.

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada declared that Western laws are unnecessary in Afghanistan, asserting that democracy is dead under sharia law.

The Taliban’s leader said there was no need for Western laws in Afghanistan and that democracy was dead as long as sharia laws are in effect.

The Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, declared on Sunday that Western laws are irrelevant in Afghanistan and that democracy is dead under the enforcement of sharia law. His remarks were delivered ...

The Taliban leader says executions are part of Islam. That's after rights groups and the U.N. condemned the public executions of four men days earlier after they were convicted of murder.

The Taliban leader said Sunday there was no need for Western laws in Afghanistan and that democracy was dead as long as sharia laws are in effect. Hibatullah Akhundzada made the comments in a ...

Aid groups are also warning of a likely rise in diseases including malaria and measles across Afghanistan, as well as deaths.

According to the Red Cross, powerful earthquakes are an annual occurrence in Afghanistan, particularly in geologically volatile areas such as the Hindu Kush. The western province of Herat also ...

Pakistan says all fighters killed overnight in North Waziristan while urging Afghan government to secure its borders.

The Taliban say the U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former ...

In a stark display of authority, the Taliban publicly executed two men in Badghis province, citing Islamic law. Mohammad Wali ...

KABUL, April 6 (Xinhua) -- The saffron harvest has increased in western Afghanistan's Herat province, which is popular for cultivation of the precious crop in the war-ravaged country. Saffron ...