[See Threat Matrix report, Taliban spurn Islamic scholars’ conference on suicide bombings.] Now Mullah Omar, the emir of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, has come out squarely against the ...
Posted on Mar 11, 2019 KABUL (Reuters) – A biography of one-eyed former Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar says he lived near a U.S. base in Afghanistan for years, not in Pakistan as U.S ...
On July 29th, the govenrment of Afghanistan announced that it believed Mullah Muhammad Omar, the leader of the Afghan Taliban, had died in a hospital in Pakistain in 2013. From 1996 to 2001 ...
Under the leadership of the reclusive Mullah Mohammed Omar (who is thought to have died in 2013), the Taliban also banned television, music, movies, make-up, and stopped girls aged 10 and over ...
Yaqoob, the son of Taliban founder and late supreme leader Mullah Omar, has not publicly interacted with Indian interlocutors in the past, they said on condition of anonymity. Singh, who is also ...
by Mullah Omar, was appointed as Akhund's deputy, main Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told a news conference in Kabul. The passing over of Baradar for the top government job came as a ...
He was reportedly also a close aide to Mullah Omar. In 1999-2000, he led the suppression of a revolt by Hazaras in Bamyan province. When the Taliban regime fell in December 2001, Dadullah escaped ...
The delegation met with Mullah Mohammed Yakub Mujahid, the son of former supreme leader Mullah Omar. The move was seen as an attempt to build a new relationship between India and Afghanistan.