Agha Jan, a close associate of the late Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, served as finance minister in the group’s first ...

Recent reports confirming the death of Taliban Supreme Commander and founder, Mullah Mohamad Omar, are disconcerting for a number of reasons. Though rumors of his death have circulated for years since ...

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Pakistan, April 23 -- The recent detention and subsequent release of influential Taliban figure Mullah Mutasim Agha Jan have ...

The Afghan government announced Wednesday that longtime Taliban leader Mullah Omar was dead. "I can confirm that Mullah Omar is dead," the spokesman for Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security ...

Since posting this story, we've gotten a few reader emails suggesting that the FBI never had Mullah Omar on its most wanted terrorist list in the first place.

Mullah Omar, whose Taliban regime in Afghanistan sheltered Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda for years before the September 11th attacks, has died, Afghan officials said today.

new video loaded: Top Afghan leader, Mullah Omar, reported dead A spokesman for the Afghan government says it is investigating reports that Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the Afghan Taliban, may ...

Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Amir al Mumineen (“the commander of the faithful”) of the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban. Three days ago, Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar issued a rare online statement ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says the U.S. has concluded that reports of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar’s death are credible. The main U.S. interest in Central Asia is to help Afghanistan ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Friday the U.S. intelligence community has confirmed the death of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar, but the circumstances of his death remain uncertain.