(b. 1959), Taliban leader and ruler of Afghanistan. Mullah Muhammad Omar, member of the Pashtun ethnic group, is the leader of the Taliban, formerly the ruling group in Afghanistan. His experiences are both military and religious. Before the Soviet...

Mullah Mohammed Omar (Pashto: ملا محمد عمر) (born c. 1959, Nodeh, near Kandahar[1]) often simply called Mullah Omar, is the reclusive leader of the Taliban of Afghanistan and was Afghanistan's de facto head of state from 1996 to 2001, under...

Byline: Gordon Rayner, James Slack The trail 'The system is a shambles' THE 'absurd' rules which allowed a21/7 bomber to get a British passport despite serious criminal convictions werelaid bare last night. The only time Eritrean-born Muktar Said Ibrahim used his...

MADRID.- La cadena de televisión árabe Al Jazir, de Qatar, fue el medio de comunicación al que llegó un fax firmado presuntamente por Osama Bin Laden, en el que pedía a los paquistaníes que se unieran a la guerra santa en caso de...

Police scuffled on Friday with Muslims protesting Israeli construction outside a disputed Jerusalem holy site, but the scattered clashes were quickly contained and no one was seriously hurt, police said.Fifteen protesters were arrested, police said.Three thousand officers _ triple the ordinary number _ were deployed...

Parliament voted Monday in a closed session to remove the speaker after a series of scandals involving the controversial lawmaker, legislators said. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani will be replaced by another Sunni Arab, they said.Al-Mashhadani's behavior has repeatedly embarrassed the Sunni Arab partners in Prime Minister Nouri...