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Long War Journal
March 3, 2018
Prior to the most significant killings of Sajna and Rehan, the prominent TTP leader killed by the US in Afghanistan was Mullah Dadullah, who led the group's branch in the Pakistani tribal agency of Bajuar. The US killed Dadullah, his deputy, Shakir, and 10 other fighters in an airstrike in Afghanistan remoteÃâà...
ThePrint
February 24, 2018
Evidence in support of Grenier's argument wasn't hard to come by. For example, journalist Ahmed Rashid found the Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah “living openly in a village outside Quetta”. Leaders of the provincial government, and top jihadist leaders, even attended a lavish family wedding.
Long War Journal
August 14, 2016
The Taliban announced that family of Mullah Dadullah Akhund, a revered commander, and his brother, Mullah Dadullah Mansour, as well as a group of commanders and fighters rejoined the so-called Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan late last week, according to a statement released on Voice of Jihad.
New York Times
December 1, 2015
Taliban commanders in Helmand and Uruzgan Provinces confirmed Mullah Dadullah's death, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid retribution. His killing would remove a major rival to the Taliban's new leader, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, who has presided over major insurgent offensivesÃâà...
The Express Tribune
November 17, 2015
A leader of a breakaway Afghan Taliban faction fighting for control of the militant movement has been shot and wounded by a bodyguard, two Taliban commanders said on Tuesday, highlighting unprecedented chaos embroiling the militants. The Taliban have been riven by a split for the first time and areÃâà...
Long War Journal
September 7, 2015
Dadullah is the brother of Mullah Dadullah Lang, a revered Taliban military commander who was killed by Coalition forces in May 2007. After his brother's death, Dadullah took over his job as the Taliban's military commander in southern Afghanistan. But within seven months after taking command of forcesÃâà...
New York Times
August 25, 2012
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — NATO forces said on Saturday that they had killed a senior Pakistani Taliban commander in an airstrike in Afghanistan, highlighting the increasingly complicated nature of the fight against Islamist militants along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mullah Dadullah, whoÃâà...
New York Times
November 6, 2004
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, May 13 — The man who probably was the Taliban's foremost operational commander, Mullah Dadullah, was killed in a joint operation by Afghan security forces, American forces and NATO troops in Helmand Province, Governor Asadullah Khaled of the neighboring KandaharÃâà...
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