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 captured the capital Kabul in mid-August, supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada said the new government will govern in accordance with Islamic law.

Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid holds a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sept. 6, 2021. (Anadolu Agency/Getty/Kyodo)

The Taliban will revive the much feared Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which repressed women under its previous rule from 1996 to 2001.

The new government -- which is made up mostly of Pashtuns, the dominant ethnic group within the Taliban -- is likely to struggle to win international recognition amid calls for an inclusive government that respects women's rights.

Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the eldest son of the late Taliban founder Mullah Omar, was named acting defense minister. Abdul Ghani Baradar, head of the Taliban's political affairs, will be deputy prime minister, while Amir Khan Muttaqi, also involved in the Taliban's political affairs, has been named acting foreign minister.

As the Taliban released the names of 33 members of its interim government, a Taliban spokesman said the list is not yet complete and more appointments may be coming. He said the new government is set to begin work on Wednesday.

On Aug. 15, the Taliban returned to power for the first time in about 20 years before the United States completed the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan in late August, bringing an end to two decades of war triggered by the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, on U.S. soil.

The group harbored the al-Qaida organization, responsible for the 2001 attacks, and suppressed women's rights during its former rule.