Mullah Omar is credited with uniting many of the group's disparate factions and provided safe haven to Osama bin Laden. But little was known about the man. Renee Montagne talks to author Ahmed Rashid.

Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, visited the shrine in 1996, shortly after seizing control of southern Afghanistan. “He came and asked to see the blessed cloak,” says Masood, who is 33.

2001-12-07 04:00:00 PDT Islamabad, Pakistan-- Mohammed Omar, the leader of the Taliban and the fallen ruler of Afghanistan, is a man possessed by visions. His mandate, as he proclaimed it, was to ...

Mullah Mohammad Omar, the secretive head of the Taliban and an al-Qaida ally who led a bloody insurgency against U.S.-led forces, eluded capture for more than a decade in spite of being one of ...

Notorious Taliban leader Mullah Omar died more than two years ago in Pakistan, the Afghanistan government said Wednesday. “The government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, based on cred… ...

By then, Mullah Omar—who was rarely photographed—had appeared outside Kandahar’s venerable Ahmed Shah mosque wearing a sacred cloak that was said to have belonged to the Prophet Muhammad.

In barely literate societies, Mullah Omar, the fugitive Taliban leader, could take on supernatural status. Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to search Skip to footer.

WASHINGTON — Mullah Mohammad Omar, the obscure, one-eyed zealot who led the Taliban from its beginnings as a band of student insurrectionists through a fateful alliance with Osama bin Laden, to ...