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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FILE - In this undated image released by the FBI, Mullah Omar is seen in a wanted poster. An Afghan official says his government is examining claims that reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar is dead.

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 ...

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 ...

Taliban leader Mullah Omar died two years ago, Afghanistan's intelligence agency spokesman Haseeb Sediqi said Wednesday. The comments came after unnamed government and militant sources said earlier ...

Afghanistan's Taliban on Thursday confirmed the death of Mullah Mohammad Omar, who led the group's self-styled Islamic emirate in the 1990s, sheltered al-Qaida through the 9/11 attacks and led a ...