Exiled Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was shown getting a hero’s welcome from the extremist group as he arrived back in Afghanistan this week — as formal negotiations started Wednesday ...
The new face of Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers owes his freedom to the U.S. In 2001, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a co-founder of the Taliban, tried to arrange the group’s surrender to the new ...
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is revered among the Taliban as a founding member of the movement in 1994, a charismatic military leader and a deeply pious figure. When the Taliban swept to victory in ...