
Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar will lead a new Afghan government that could be announced soon, sources in the group said on Friday, as it battled fighters while striving to ward off economic collapse. Baradar, who heads the Taliban’s political office, will be joined by Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the son of ...

The top American intelligence official, in a rare intervention, has blocked a federal court case against a top former Saudi intelligence official, invoking the rarely-used state secrets privilege. Avril Haines, the Director of National Intelligence in the Joe Biden administration who oversees all 16 US intelligence agencies, has moved to ...