Known as the Commander of the Faithful, Mullah Omar created the Taliban in the mid-1990s, and was its spiritual guide. United States reward for his capture was $10 million. Was a rural Islamic ...

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 ...

Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Amir al Mumineen (“commander of the faithful”) of the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban. The Taliban’s characterization is odd, as US military and intelligence officials I’ve ...

[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 ...

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 ...

The meeting has been termed as a significant development as Mr Yaqoob, the son of the Taliban’s founder and late supreme leader Mullah Omar, has not publicly interacted with India’s ...

Haqqani was a close associate of Taliban founder Mullah Omar and served as a negotiator on behalf of the Taliban during discussions with US representatives in 2020. The ICC prosecutor's office told ...