Maulvi Mohammad Yaqoob, Mullah Omar's son, was a leading contender to succeed his father. Mullah Omar was not a man who thought in millennia, and neither does his successor. Last Monday ...

Posted on Mar 11, 2019 KABUL (Reuters) – A biography of one-eyed former Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar says he lived near a U.S. base in Afghanistan for years, not in Pakistan as U.S ...

Yaqoob, the son of Taliban founder and late supreme leader Mullah Omar, has not publicly interacted with Indian interlocutors in the past, they said on condition of anonymity. Singh, who is also ...

a religious scholar who has served as a teacher and mentor to all Taliban leaders since the group’s founding in 1994 -- including Mullah Omar, his son Yaqoob and his successor Akhtar Muhammad ...

N EW DELHI: In a significant move, an Indian delegation met Afghanistan's acting Defence Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob and offered the use of Chabahar Port in Iran to businesses in his country ...

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 ...

Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the son of the group’s late founder Mullah Omar. People familiar with the matter, speaking on condition of anonymity, described Kamil as an Afghan student whom the ...

The former leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Mullah Omar is wanted by the US authorities for sheltering Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network. His is alleged to still be directing the Taliban ...