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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and ...

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 ...

Mullah Mohammad Omar, the head of the Taliban movement, stated in late January 2001 that there was no evidence of a civilian massacre in Yakaolang, but in the same interview retracted an earlier ...