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Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, [b] also spelled Haibatullah Akhunzada, [c] is an Afghan cleric who in 2021, became the supreme leader of Afghanistan in the internationally unrecognized Taliban regime. He has led the Taliban since 2016, and came to power with its victory over U.S.-backed forces in the 2001–2021 war .
Hibatullah Akhundzada has been supreme leader since the Taliban took control of the government in August 2021, and he has issued a large number of decrees, many of which have imposed his cultural views, ultraconservative even by Taliban standards, on the country with no opportunity for public consultation. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The current supreme leader is Hibatullah Akhundzada, who assumed office in exile during the Taliban insurgency on 25 May 2016, upon being chosen by the Leadership Council, and came to power on 15 August 2021 with the Taliban's victory over U.S.-backed forces in the 2001–2021 war.
The directive by Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada was widely unpopular, according to two Taliban officials and commanders NBC News spoke to on Thursday.
Hibatullah Akhundzada gave his warning in a sermon to mark the festival of Eid al-Adha at a mosque in southern Kandahar province, weeks before a Taliban delegation goes to Doha, Qatar for U.N ...
Baradar, the second-most powerful Taliban leader—below only Supreme Commander Hibatullah Akhundzada—indeed spent nearly eight years imprisoned in Pakistan, and a U.S. diplomat has said that he ...
The rules were approved by Afghanistan’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, before being issued on August 21. Image credits: Pvince73/stock.adobe.com
The messages for Eid al-Fitr marking the end of Ramadan were delivered by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, who defended the imposition of Islamic law and railed against the international ...