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Muhammad Omar ( Pashto: محمد عمر, romanized: Muḥammad ʿUmar; 1960 – 23 April 2013) was an Afghan cleric and Islamist revolutionary who founded the Taliban.
Jul 29, 2015 · 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 the most-hunted fugitives on Earth.
Jul 29, 2015 · Taliban leader Mullah Omar died two years ago in Pakistan, a spokesman for Afghanistan's security services says. Abdul Hassib Seddiqi told the BBC's Afghan Service that Mullah Omar had died...
May 3, 2024 · Mohammad Omar (born c. 1950–62?, near Kandahār, Afghanistan—died April, 2013, Pakistan) was an Afghan militant and leader of the Taliban (Pashto: Ṭālebān [“Students”]) who was the emir of Afghanistan (1996–2001).
Jul 29, 2015 · Mullah Mohammed Omar has seemed like a cat with nine lives. There have been numerous unconfirmed reports the leader of Afghanistan's Taliban died before now.
Jul 30, 2015 · Mullah Muhammad Omar, the leader of the fundamentalist Afghan Taliban movement, proved to be as enigmatic in death as he had been in life.
Jul 29, 2015 · Mullah Mohammed Omar is a reclusive figure believed to lead the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan from hiding somewhere in Pakistan or Afghanistan.
Jul 30, 2015 · The Taliban leader is believed to have suffered a shrapnel wound to his right eye in the 1980s. Mullah Omar was a reclusive figure even before his Taliban government fell from power in late...
Jul 29, 2015 · The spiritual leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Omar, is dead. The reclusive leader, who had not been seen in public since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, died in 2013 of an...
Aug 2, 2015 · It is not surprising Mullah Mansour has been hastily chosen as the Taliban’s new leader, as he was in contact with Omar when he was alive (and, after his death, he faked messages in his name).
