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Mullah Muhammad Omar (Pashto: محمد عمر, romanized: Muḥammad ʿUmar; 1960 – 23 April 2013) was an Afghan militant leader and cleric who founded the Taliban in 1994. During the Third Afghan Civil War , the Taliban fought the Northern Alliance and took control of most of the country, establishing the First Islamic Emirate for which Omar ...
Reported to be a leader in the Taliban's Quetta Shura; Reported captured in late February 2010; Mohammad Hassan Akhund: First Deputy Council of Ministers: At large; spoke to Reuters by satellite telephone from an undisclosed location on May 4, 2003 [citation needed] Reported to be a leader in the Taliban's Quetta Shura. [14]
In late 2004, the then-hidden Taliban leader Mullah Omar announced an insurgency against America and the transitional Afghan government forces to "regain the sovereignty of our country." [ 162 ] The 2004 Afghan presidential election was a major target of Taliban, though only 20 districts and 200 villages elsewhere were claimed to have been ...
In May and June 2003, senior Taliban officials proclaimed the Taliban regrouped and ready for guerrilla war to expel US forces from Afghanistan. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] In late 2004, the then hidden Taliban leader Mohammed Omar announced an insurgency against "America and its puppets" (i.e. transitional Afghan government forces) to "regain the ...
After the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Massoud retreated north to his native Panjshir Valley and formed a resistance movement against the Taliban, called the United Front or the Northern Alliance. [16] In addition to Massoud's Tajik force, the United Front included Uzbeks under the former PDPA general Abdul Rashid Dostum and Hazara factions.
But it was a Taliban government that took in al-Qaida's leaders in the mid-1990s and allowed them to plot the 9/11 attacks there, sparking the 20-year U.S.-led war there.
Flag of the Taliban. The Taliban (/ ˈ t æ l ɪ b æ n, ˈ t ɑː l ɪ b ɑː n /; Pashto: طَالِبَانْ, romanized: ṭālibān, lit. 'students'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, [1] [2] is an Afghan militant movement, that governs Afghanistan, with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of ...
The Trump administration signed a peace deal in 2020 with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan. After the U.S. military withdrawal in 2021, the group swooped into power, but its rule over the ...