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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 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 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...
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 30, 2015 · A fanatic and recluse who hardly ever met outsiders and knew little of the world at large, he was perhaps best known as the man who gave asylum to the equally fanatical Saudi Arabian founder of...
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.
Mullah Muhammad Umar Mujahid [1] [2] (1959 - 23 April 2013) was the founder of the Taliban in Afghanistan. He was usually called Mullah Omar. After Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979, he joined the Afghan mujahideen to fight in the Soviet–Afghan War.
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 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...
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).
