Muhammad Umar Mujahid Akhund[a] (1960 – 23 April 2013), commonly known as Mullah Omar, [b] or Muhammad Omar, was an Afghan militant leader and founder and the first leader of the Taliban from 1994 until his death in 2013.

Mullah Mohammad Omar, the secretive head of the Taliban and an al-Qaida ally who led a bloody insurgency against U.S.-led forces, eluded capture for more than a decade in spite of being one of the most-hunted fugitives on Earth.

Jul 29, 2015 · Mullah Mohammed Omar is a reclusive figure believed to lead the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan from hiding somewhere in Pakistan or Afghanistan.

Jul 29, 2015 · Taliban leader Mullah Omar died two years ago in Pakistan, a spokesman for Afghanistan's security services says. Abdul Hassib Seddiqi told the BBC's Afghan Service that Mullah Omar had died of...

Jul 30, 2015 · Word of his death Wednesday confirmed just how much of a ghost the father of the Taliban had become. Afghan officials said Omar has been dead for "a couple years." Even in the prime of his life, at...

Jul 30, 2015 · Mullah Omar was a reclusive figure even before his Taliban government fell from power in late 2001 and he was forced into hiding. He left virtually all contact with the outside world to his foreign...

Jul 29, 2015 · Mullah Mohammed Omar has seemed like a cat with nine lives. There have been numerous unconfirmed reports the leader of Afghanistan's Taliban died before now. But this time they're being taken...

Mullah Muhammad Umar[1][2] (1959 - 23 April 2013) was the founder of the Taliban in Afghanistan. He was usually called Mullah Omar. He came from a religious family of Islamic scholars near Kandahar. After Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979, he joined the Afghan mujahideen to fight in the Soviet–Afghan War.

Jul 29, 2015 · Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader who fought a protracted war against both Soviet Union and NATO in Afghanistan, has died due to illness. With his death the militant group has lost its most...

Jul 30, 2015 · Through five turbulent years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan and more than a decade of guerrilla insurgency against NATO-led forces, Mullah Omar maintained his grip by means of cunning ruthlessness...