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Muhammad Omar (Pashto: محمد عمر, romanized: Muḥammad ʿUmar; 1960 – 23 April 2013) was an Afghan militant leader and founder of the Taliban.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 began to serve as Supreme Leader in 1996.
Abdul Hassib Sediqi, the spokesman for Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security, said Mullah Omar died in a hospital in the Pakistani city of Karachi in April 2013. The Taliban leader’s exact date of birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been in his 50s. “We confirm officially that he is dead,” Sediqi told The Associated Press.
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 ...
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 government announced on Wednesday that he ...
Mohammad Yaqoob is the son of the founder of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar. He is believed to be little more than 30 years old and is currently the leader of the group's military operations.
29 July 2015. AP. 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 ...
Mullah Omar obituary. Taliban leader who gave Osama bin Laden a haven from which to launch the 9/11 attacks. Sandy Gall. Thu 30 Jul 2015 12.21 EDT. Last modified on Wed 29 Nov 2017 08.44 EST ...
