Taliban announce all-male interim gov't of Afghanistan

The Taliban on Tuesday announced an all-male interim government in Afghanistan consisting mostly of senior Taliban officials in key Cabinet posts, following their seizure of power in the country last month.Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, who served as deputy prime minister in the previous Taliban-ruled government through 2001, will lead the new government as prime minister, while Sirajuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani Network, a militant group labeled by the United States as a terrorist group, was named as acting interior minister.In the first statement issued since the Taliban captur…READ FULL ARTICLE