Knowing roughly where Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is hiding is one thing. Finding him is another. For months Afghan government and U.S. military sources have believed that the man who gave ...

The Taliban can never be brought into the political process in Afghanistan as long as the group’s fanatical leader is still a fugitive, top U.S. officials told The Washington Examiner. With Osama bin ...

KABUL (Reuters) - One of the most wanted men in the world for over a decade, Mullah Omar was also one of the most elusive. There are no clear photographs in existence of the tall, one-eyed leader of ...

Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour (center-front). Image from Voice of Jihad. On the ninth anniversary of his death, the Taliban eulogized Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, its previous emir, as a martyr of ...

Mohammad Yaqoob was virtually unknown five years ago when the Taliban disclosed the mysterious death of his father and its founder, Mullah Mohammad Omar. The Taliban acknowledged that its spiritual ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban confirmed the death of longtime leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and appointed his successor Thursday as a new round of peace talks was postponed indefinitely amid ...

Known as the Commander of the Faithful, Mullah Omar created the Taliban in the mid-1990s, and was its spiritual guide. United States reward for his capture was $10 million. Was a rural Islamic cleric ...

A bogeyman in certain political circles within Afghanistan, the new Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour is lauded at home and abroad for his relatively lenient, conciliatory stance towards the Afghan ...

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban denied on Wednesday their supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar had died, saying false messages claiming his death had been sent to media after their mobile phones, email ...