Sirajuddin Haqqani, who acknowledged planning a January 2008 attack on the Serena Hotel in Kabul, which killed six people, including U.S. citizen Thor David Hesla, no longer appears on the State ...

Sirajuddin Haqqani, a former feared Taliban leader, now seeks to be seen as a pragmatic statesman. He challenges the hard-line policies of Taliban emir Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, especially on ...

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 Western ...