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Mullah Baradar in 2020 in Doha, Qatar, to sign the Doha Agreement. Abdul Ghani Baradar [a] (born 29 September 1963 known by the honorific mullah) is an Afghan politician and religious leader who is the acting first deputy prime minister, alongside Abdul Salam Hanafi, of the Taliban led government of Afghanistan.
We do not want to be entangled with the past," [91] –?include that it did not expect to take over the country so quickly and still had "problems to work out among" their factions"; [91] that $7 billion in Afghan government funds in US banks has been frozen, and that the 80% of the previous government's budget that came from "the United States ...
The death of the Taliban's founding leader, Mullah Omar, had been previously concealed for two years, and during that time, the Taliban had continued to issue statements in Mullah Omar's name. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] On 30 October 2021, Taliban officials said Akhundzada made a public appearance at the Darul Uloom Hakimah madrassa in Kandahar.
Afghanistan’s embattled president left the country Sunday, joining his fellow citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban and signaling the end of a 20-year Western ...
The government accepted the advice of a loya jirga, a grand assembly of elders, on Sunday to release 400 "hard-core" Taliban prisoners, paving the way for talks aimed at ending a war that has ...
Several social media posts are promoting the claim that the current leader of Afghanistan was released from prison in 2018 by then-President Donald Trump. “Let this sink in,” the posts state.
In September 2017, the presidents of both the United States and Afghanistan demanded Qatar to close down the office of the Taliban. [97] But in February 2020, Qatar facilitated the US–Taliban deal. According to the agreement, the Taliban would cut all its connections with Al-Qaeda and begin peace negotiations with the Afghani Government.
A Taliban administration foreign ministry spokesman told Reuters new envoy Zhao Xing was the first ambassador from any country to take up the post since August 2021, when the Taliban took over as ...