Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Afghan Foreign Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, right, is greeted by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad, ...

(Reuters) - Mohammad Hasan Akhund, the senior Taliban leader appointed as acting Afghan prime minister, is an experienced former cabinet minister with the ear of the movement's spiritual head, ...

Who is Mullah Hasan Akhund? Mullah Akhund is a fascinating but relatively enigmatic figure in the Taliban. He has been an influential figure in Afghanistan since the inception of the militant group in ...

Three weeks after their lightning-fast capture of Afghanistan—culminating in the group’s well-publicized takeover of Kabul on August 15—the Taliban has announced the country’s interim government.

Kabul [Afghanistan], November 4 (ANI): As Pakistan announced to expel nearly 2 million Afghan refugees, Afghanistan Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund said that the action is against ...

The Taliban has formed a new, theocratic government in Afghanistan, weeks after the August 15 collapse of the internationally recognized administration in Kabul and within days of international troops ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A splinter group of the Afghan Taliban announced its own leader Monday, underscoring deep divisions in the insurgency following the death of its longtime emir. Subscribe to read ...

Ubaidullah Akhund Yar Mohammad Akhund was listed on 25 January 2001 as Minister of Defence of the Taliban regime so falling within the provisions of resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1333 (2000) of the ...

Little more than three weeks after their rapid sweep to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban has announced the country’s interim government. Comprising high-ranking loyalists and militants with terrorist ...