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Akhtar Mansour
2nd supreme leader of the Taliban
Akhtar Mohammad Mansour[a] (1960s – 21 May 2016) was the second supreme leader of the Taliban. Succeeding the founding leader, Mullah Omar, he was the supreme leader from July 2015 to May 2016, when he was killed in a US drone strike in Balochistan, Pakistan.
United StatespresidentBarack Obama stated that Mansour was killed because he was planning attacks on US targets in Kabul.[18] Obama hoped Mansour's death would lead to the Taliban joining a peace process.[19]
Personal life
[edit]Mansour was born sometime during either 1960, 1963, 1965 or 1968.[12][13][14][15] According to the Taliban, he is thought to have been born either in a by named Kariz or another by named Band-i-Taimoor, both of which are situated within the Maiwand District of Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan. The biography released on a Taliban website show
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Mullah Omar
Afghan cleric who founded the Taliban (1960–2013)
"Muhammad Umar" redirects here. For other uses, see Muhammad Umar (disambiguation).
MullahMuhammad Omar (Pashto: محمد عمر, romanized: Muḥammad ʿUmar; 1960 – 23 April 2013) was an Afghan militant leader and cleric who founded the Taliban in 1994. During the Third Afghan Civil War, the Taliban fought the Northern Alliance and took control of most of the country, establishing the First Islamic Emirate for which Omar began to serve as Supreme Leader in 1996. Shortly after al-Qaeda carried out the September 11 attacks, the Taliban government was toppled by an American invasion of Afghanistan, prompting Omar to go into hiding. He successfully evaded capture by the American-led coalition before dying in 2013 from tuberculosis.
Born into a religious family in Kandahar, Omar was educated at local madrasas in Afghanistan. After Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979, he joined the Afg