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Taliban Marks 9th Anniversary of Mullah Omar’s Death

24th April, 2022 · admin

Tolo News: Many speakers at the event called Mullah Mohammad Omar a personality who brought Afghans together and saved the country from division. The first deputy prime minister, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, said Mullah Omar was a brave leader who suffered a lot but continued his fight under difficult conditions. Mullah Mohammad Omar died of

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Posted in History, Taliban | Tags: Mullah Omar |
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Will The Taliban Stay United To Govern, Or Splinter Into Regional Fiefdoms?

25th August, 2021 · admin

Ron Synovitz Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 25, 2021 As the Taliban transforms its military chain of command into a governing structure for Afghanistan, alliances and tribal configurations that kept two rival Taliban factions together in recent years are now being tested. “Conquering a country is always the easy part. Ruling it, in Afghanistan’s case,

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Posted in History, Political News, Taliban | Tags: Abdul Qayyum Zakir, Durranis, Durranis vs Ghilzais, Ghilzais, Gul Agha Shirzai, Hibatullah Akhundzada, Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, Mullah Omar, Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban, Sirajuddin Haqqani, Taliban - Pakistani asset |
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Who’s Who In The Taliban: The Men Who Run The Extremist Group And How They Operate

7th August, 2021 · admin

By Ron Synovitz RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 6, 2021 With the Taliban in control of more than half of all districts in Afghanistan, promises made by Taliban political negotiators in Doha appear to be falling by the wayside. The movement’s so-called Political Affairs Commission in Doha had vowed in a February 2020 peace deal with the

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Posted in Central Asia, Haqqani Network, History, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Destabilization of Central Asia, Fazlur Rahman Ansari, Hibatullah Akhundzada, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, Mullah Omar, Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban, Sirajuddin Haqqani, Taliban - Pakistani asset |
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Online Campaign Honors Memory of Taliban Founder Mullah Omar

26th April, 2021 · admin

Tolo News: As discussions heat up on the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, the Taliban and its supporters have started a campaign on Twitter honoring the group’s founding leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. One of his speeches as well as his photos are being shown publically for the first time.  Articles and memories about him

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Posted in History, Taliban | Tags: Mullah Omar |
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Taliban’s Expanding ‘Financial Power’ Could Make It ‘Impervious’ To Pressure, Confidential NATO Report Warns

17th September, 2020 · admin · 17 Comments

By Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 16, 2020 The Taliban’s burgeoning financial might could make the militant group immune to pressure from the international community as it negotiates a role in postwar Afghanistan, according to a confidential report commissioned by NATO and obtained by RFE/RL. The Taliban “has achieved, or is close to achieving,

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Drugs, Economic News, Haqqani Network, NATO-Afghanistan, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Hibatullah Akhundzada, Illegal Mining, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, Mullah Omar, Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban, Taliban - Pakistani asset |
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The Rise Of Mullah Yaqoob, The Taliban’s New Military Chief

27th August, 2020 · admin · 10 Comments

By Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 27, 2020 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 leader had been dead for more than two years, soon after Afghan intelligence said he had

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Posted in Security, Taliban | Tags: Hibatullah Akhundzada, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Mullah Mansur, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, Mullah Omar |
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Mullah Omar Never Lived In Afghanistan After 2001: Nabil

13th March, 2019 · admin · 15 Comments

Tolo News: In reaction to a new research by a Dutch writer which says Mullah Mohammad Omar, Taliban’s founding leader, had lived in Afghanistan before he died in 2013, former head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Rahmatullah Nabil, said on Tuesday that Mullah Omar never lived in Afghanistan following April 2001.  Nabil told TOLOnews

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Posted in History, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Mullah Omar, NDS, Rahmatullah Nabil |
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Kabul Rejects ‘Delusional Claim’ Mullah Omar Died in Afghanistan

11th March, 2019 · admin · 7 Comments

Ayaz Gul VOA News March 11, 2019 ISLAMABAD — Officials in Afghanistan are rejecting a new American investigative report that claims the founder of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Omar, spent his final years in Afghanistan, not in neighboring Pakistan. Washington and Afghan officials have long asserted that Omar took refuge in Pakistan after a U.S.-led military coalition dislodged

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Mullah Omar, Zabihullah Mujahid |
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Taliban Infighting Leaves Dozens Of Militants Dead In Afghanistan

30th November, 2018 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 30, 2018 Afghan officials say clashes between two Taliban factions have killed dozens of militants in the country’s west. Jilani Farhad, the spokesman for the governor of Herat Province, said at least 28 Taliban fighters were killed and 25 wounded in the Shindand district on November 30. Hekmatullah Hekmat, the

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Posted in Security, Taliban | Tags: Hibatullah Akhundzada, Mullah Omar, Mullah Rasool, Mullah Rasul |
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Letter by Mullah Omar’s son: Myth or Depiction of deep rift among Taliban leaders

1st April, 2018 · admin · 4 Comments

Khaama Press: The letter states that the attack near Jamhoriat hospital with an ambulance has not only resulted in massive civilian casualties but resulted into depiction of a negative image of Taliban on domestic and international level besides resulting into reduced support to the movement. According to Mullah Yaqoob, the attack was carried out based on the

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Posted in Taliban | Tags: Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, Mullah Omar |
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