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'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 defended executions as part of Islam, after four men were executed in Afghanistan. The ...

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More than half of those detained in the first six months of new laws regulating personal conduct were men who had ...

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

But the Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has emphasized the primacy of Islamic law and the role of the Ministry of Vice and Virtue in reforming Afghan society and its people. In a message ...

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Rights groups and the U.N. condemned the killings. Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has previously rejected the need for Western laws in Afghanistan. In an audio clip released Sunday by the ...

The Taliban morality police in Afghanistan have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles and others for missing prayers at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan.

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada defended the recent public executions of four men convicted of murder, asserting they ...