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The founder & spiritual leader, who lived in hiding near a U.S. base in southern Afghanistan until his death. Died on 23 April 2013 of tuberculosis. His death was kept secret by the Taliban officials for two years until it was revealed in July 2015 by Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security. [1] Akhtar Mansour: Elected July 2014.
The death of the Taliban's founding leader, Mullah Omar, had been previously concealed for two years, and during that time, the Taliban had continued to issue statements in Mullah Omar's name. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] On 30 October 2021, Taliban officials said Akhundzada made a public appearance at the Darul Uloom Hakimah madrassa in Kandahar.
Mansour was succeeded as Taliban leader by Hibatullah Akhundzada. [11]Some U.S. officials had been divided over Mansour's intentions. [1] Some believed that Mansour could have brought the Taliban to the negotiating table, potentially speeding up the reconciliation process; others, by contrast, "were highly skeptical of Mansour's commitment to talks," noting that Mansour had a long history of ...
A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan this weekend killed Ayman al-Zawahri, who helped Osama bin Laden plot the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and helped al-Qaida survive and spread in ...
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 ...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghanistan's main intelligence agency said Wednesday that the reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been dead for more than two years. The one-eyed ...
Akhtar Mohammad Mansour [a] (1960s – 21 May 2016) was the second supreme leader of the Taliban.Succeeding the founding leader, Mullah Omar, he was the supreme leader from July 2015 to May 2016, when he was killed in a US drone strike in Balochistan, Pakistan.
Trump previously discussed his “rough call” with “the leader of the Taliban, Abdul,” during an interview with Fox News personality Sean Hannity in 2022. “I said, ‘Don’t do it ...