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 cleric ...

The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and remove foreign influence from the country. Taliban, in Pashto, is the plural of Talib, which means student. Most ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Like the hard-line Taliban he commands, Mohammad Omar is surrounded by myth and lore. Among the stories about Omar, the self-declared commander of the Muslim faithful in ...