Breaking: The Taliban announced a new Afghan government, naming Mullah Hassan Akhund as prime minister and keeping all key positions in Taliban hands
KABUL—The Taliban unveiled a new government of Afghanistan that didn’t include any other prominent political forces, or women, cementing their hold on the country three weeks after seizing Kabul.
While the movement’s supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada will oversee the government’s main decisions, the new cabinet will be headed by Mullah Hassan Akhund, who served as foreign minister in the Taliban government of the 1990s.
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