updated Sat. April 13, 2024
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smallwarsjournal
April 24, 2018
“Fighters, both local and international, are recruited from Pakistani madrassas such as the Darul Uloom Haqqania, referred to by some as the “University of Jihad” for its notable alumni, including Taliban leader Mullah Omar and Jalaluddin himself. H.N. fighters hide within plain sight; mosques, bazaars, and madrassas haveÃâà...
DAWN.com
April 15, 2018
In 2010, Mullah Baradar, Mullah Omar's deputy, was arrested in Pakistan while in the middle of negotiations with President Hamid Karzai's brother, a claim Pakistan denied. In 2013, Pakistan released Mullah Mansoor Dadullah, a senior Taliban military commander in southern Afghanistan, followingÃâà...
Forces Network
April 13, 2018
However, one of the first drone strikes was almost certainly against the Taliban leader Mullah Omar. Omar had strong family ties with Bin Laden, with both men having fought in the against Soviet Union forces in the 80s. They reportedly even went on fishing trips together. The leader of the Afghan TalibanÃâà...
The New Arab
April 12, 2018
John Rugarber, former US Army Captain with multiple tours to Iraq and Afghanistan and analyst at Encyclopaedia Geopolitica, recalls that in 2015, IS appeared to take advantage of the instability within the Afghan Taliban, following the announcement of Mullah Omar's death to insert itself into the conflict.
The Nation
April 12, 2018
Mullah Omar himself had not graduated, and was granted an honorary sanad from the madressa he had attended, the Darul Uloom at Akora Khattak. The madressas in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan have been the focus of attention, but the madressas on the Afghan side of the Durand Line are also as potentÃâà...
Long War Journal
April 10, 2018
It maintains close ties with both al Qaeda and Taliban leaders. The US government listed the group as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization in May 2005. Its members who are in custody “have testified to the close ties between the [IJU] leaders and Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar,” theÃâà...
Long War Journal
April 9, 2018
Hikmatullah is part of the contingent of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan that defected and joined the Islamic State after the Taliban was caught hiding the death of Mullah Omar. NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan reported that Hikmatullah and his bodyguard were killed in anÃâà...
The American Conservative
April 4, 2018
President George Bush's address to the U.S. Congress just a few days before, Grenier told Tenet, was a good start: demand that Afghanistan's Taliban ruler, Mullah Omar, turn bin Laden over to the United States. If he refused, the U.S. should launch a campaign to oust him. Grenier had thought through theÃâà...
Eurasia Daily
April 2, 2018
A large conference on Afghanistan was held in Tashkent at the initiative of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. Attending the event were Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, EU Higher Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, representatives of UN and the region'sÃâà...
Action News Now
March 25, 2018
Afghan resistance fighters, known collectively as mujahedeen, fight back. 1989-1993 - After the Soviet Union withdraws, fighting among the mujahedeen leads to chaos. 1994 - The Taliban is formed, comprised mostly of students and led by mujahedeen veteran Mullah Omar. November 1994 - The TalibanÃâà...
ABC News
March 17, 2018
And, he says, he was even tasked with hunting for Osama bin Laden and managed to turn Mullah Omar's personal secretary into a key source that provided intelligence about al-Qaeda hideouts. The information he had obtained was so valuable that when his past caught up with him and he finally faced hisÃâà...
WTVD-TV
March 17, 2018
The Soviet-born American businessman, who says he was a "senior advisor to Donald Trump," has become known for his supporting role in the unfolding drama that is Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. Sater is often referred to as the convictedÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 11, 2018
He has been quoted as describing Mullah Omar as an "angel" and one of his star pupils. The seminary -- which was founded by Haq's father in 1947, the same year Pakistan gained its independence from the British Raj -- has published a two-volume collection of documents boasting of its role in theÃâà...
Times of India
March 10, 2018
UNITED NATIONS: Responding to Islamabad's bid to raise the Kashmir issue for a second day yesterday at the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, India denounced Pakistan as a "failed state" where terrorists thrive and Osama Bin Laden received protection, and demanded that it bring theÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 10, 2018
Kabul, in the continuity of Mullah Omar and the previous regimes in Afghanistan, persisted in not recognizing the Durand Line, the current border between the two states. The Afghan ... In the period 2001-2003, after militarily defeating Mullah Omar, the Americans missed the peace. They refused any idea ofÃâà...
War on the Rocks
March 9, 2018
On Oct. 7, 2001, the opening night of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, an MQ-1 Predator — tail number 3034, now on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum — watched a convoy of vehicles believed to belong to Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Doctrinally, the air componentÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 7, 2018
Therefore, when the news of Mullah Omar's death broke out, it was the end for the ambitious peacemaking attempt. The feelings of betrayal and deceit resulted in the Ghani government and Taliban hardening their stances, with the Taliban feeling they were stabbed in the back. It ended the brief honeymoonÃâà...
The Quint
March 7, 2018
The monumental, 4th and 5th century statues, were blown up simply because according to the then Taliban chief, Mullah Omar, they were against Islamic tradition. The entire world was shocked at the destruction of these historical artefacts and beautiful examples of 'Gandhara' art. Saddam Hussein was aÃâà...
Bloomberg Government (blog)
March 6, 2018
Wald dispatched two Navy F-18s to drop 1,000 pound bombs on what was believed to be Taliban Leader Mullah Omar's facility, when suddenly he heard “You are cleared to fire” over the communications network. Wald watched in amazement as a truck outside the facility was destroyed in a fireball.
The Wire
March 5, 2018
He even expressed willingness to directly meet Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Mullah Omar, the then 'amir' of the Taliban. The former president conducted first a grand peace Jirga (assembly) in 2010 and then a Loya Jirga in 2011, which endorsed talks with the Taliban. He too offered an amnesty to the TalibanÃâà...
Atlantic Council (blog)
February 28, 2018
Among the most prominent of the Taliban's founders was its infamous leader Mullah Omar. Born in southern Afghanistan, he made his reputation fighting the Soviets, losing his right eye along the way. When the mujahideen factions began their infighting, Omar and a group of his loyal commanders formedÃâà...
Arab News
February 25, 2018
Last month, President Donald Trump told visiting members of the UN Security Council that the US would no longer talk with the Taliban following a recent string of deadly attacks in Afghanistan. This appeared to be a departure from the president's own Afghanistan war strategy, which saw the intensifiedÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
February 18, 2018
Then we met with Mullah Omar. We asked him to hand over LIGF leaders and members to us, in return for Libya weighing up recognizing the Taliban regime and assisting it in infrastructure projects, including the construction of a road between Jalalabad and Kabul,” he added, speaking under the conditionÃâà...
The Economist
February 8, 2018
The Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, sits with his legs drawn up, picking at his bare toes and chatting to a Pakistani spy chief. An anxious Taliban negotiator vomits copiously during talks at a safe house in Munich. Conveying the views of Pakistan's double-dealing generals and spooks, Mr Coll draws fromÃâà...
BuzzFeed News
December 31, 1999
He obtained five of the personal satellite telephone numbers for Osama bin Laden before 9/11 and he helped flip the personal secretary to Mullah Omar, then the head of the Taliban and an ally of bin Laden, into a source who provided the location of al-Qaeda training camps and weapons caches. In 2004Ãâà...
The New Indian Express
December 31, 1999
India expressed its concerns that country like Pakistan, which protected Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and sheltered Taliban founder and former leader Mullah Omar, pretending to be a victim. "Is it not woefully farcical that the state which protected Osama Bin Laden and sheltered Mullah Omar shouldÃâà...
The Asian Age
December 31, 1999
India expressed its concerns that country like Pakistan, which protected al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and sheltered Taliban founder and former leader Mullah Omar, pretending to be a victim. "Is it not woefully farcical that the state which protected Osama Bin Laden and sheltered Mullah Omar shouldÃâà...
The Hindu
December 31, 1999
But the talks collapsed when it emerged that Taliban leader Mullah Omar had died two years earlier. Ever since, the Taliban has stepped up its violent campaign, killing thousands. This time the difference is that the Afghan government has come up with a seven-point plan of engagement with the TalibanÃâà...
