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Battle of Jalalabad [14] Second Afghan Civil War. Battle of Kabul (1992–1996) Third Afghan Civil War. War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) Muhammad Omar ( Pashto: محمد عمر, romanized: Muḥammad ʿUmar; 1960 – 23 April 2013) was an Afghan militant leader and founder of the Taliban.
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). Mullah Omar’s refusal to extradite al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden prompted the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 ...
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Jul 30, 2015 · 30 July 2015. EPA. 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...
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. But this time they're being taken...
Jul 30, 2015 · By Carlotta Gall. July 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. When the Afghan ...
Mullah Muhammad Omar was an Afghan cleric, Islamist partisan fighter and political leader who founded the Taliban and was the supreme leader of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Following the ouster of his government by the United States in 2001, he went into hiding and avoided capture until his reported 2013 death from tuberculosis.
