Taliban is a hard-line Islamic movement in Afghanistan who has fought the rebellion against the west-supported government in Kabul since being overthrown from power in 2001.
Everything drew members of what was called “Mujahidin” fighters who, with support from the United States stated that disabling Soviet forces In the 1980s.
The group appeared in 1994 as one of the factions that fought civil war and continued to control most countries in 1996, when it enacted strict Islamic law.
The opponents and Western countries accused them brutally enforcing their sharia versions and suppressing religious minorities.
The founder and original leader was Mullah Mohammad Omar, who was hiding after the Taliban was overthrown by US-backed local forces after the attack on September 11, 2001 in the United States.
Very secret is his existence that his death, in 2013, was only confirmed two years later by his son.
The Taliban was once again in military power in Afghanistan.
Since foreign forces began to attract they had confiscated most of the country and now controlling the capital of eight of 34 provinces.
The following are some key figures in the movement.
HaiBatullah Akhundzadaknown as a “leader of the faithful”, a Bachelor of Islamic Law is the Taliban leader who has the final authority of the political, religious and military groups of the group.
Akhundzada took over when his predecessor, Akhtar Mansour, was killed in a US drone strike near the Afghan-Pakistani border in 2016.
For 15 years, until suddenly disappeared in May 2016, Akhundzada taught and preached in a mosque in Kuctak, a city in Pakistan Southwest, colleagues and students have told Reuters.
He is believed to be around 60 years old, and his existence is unknown.
Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Putra Founder of Taliban Mullah Omar, Yaqoob oversees group military operations, and local media reports say he is in Afghanistan.
He was proposed as the overall leader of the movement for various succession exists, but he put forward Akhundzada in 2016 because he felt he did not have a battlefield and too young experience, according to a Taliban commander at the meeting was chosen.
Yaqoob is believed to be in the early 30s.
Sirajuddin Haqqanithe Putra Commander of the leading Mujahideen Jalaluddin Haqqani, Sirajuddin led the Haqqani network, a loosely organized group that oversees the Taliban’s financial and military assets at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Haqqanis is believed by several experts to introduce suicide bombings to Afghanistan and have been blamed for several high attacks in Afghanistan including attacks at the Top Kabul Hotel, a murder attempt at the time – President Hamid Karzai and a suicide attack on Indian Embassies.
Haqqani is believed in the late 40s or early 50s.
Its existence is unknown.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradaron from the co-founder of the Taliban, Baradar now heads the Taliban political office and is part of the negotiation team owned by a group in Doha to try and struggle political agreements that can open the way for a ceasefire and more durable in Afghanistan.
The process failed to make significant progress in recent months.
Baradar, it was reported to be one of the most trusted Mullah Omar commanders, arrested in 2010 by security forces in South Pakistan City Karachi and released in 2018.
Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzaia former deputy minister in the Taliban government, Stanekzai has lived in Doha for almost a decade , and became the head of the group political office there in 2015.
He has taken part in negotiations with the Afghan government, and has represented the Taliban on a diplomatic trip to several countries.
Abdul Hakim Haqqanihe is the head of the Taliban negotiating team.
The former head of the Taliban shadow shadow heads the strong religious scholar council and is widely believed to be someone who most believes in Akhundzada.
Some Afghan Taliban key leaders
