After Mullah Omar, What Comes Next For the Taliban?
July 30, 2015
Before ISIS, there was the Taliban. And before Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, there was Mullah Omar. On Wednesday, Afghanistan’s government said it had credible information that the mysterious, one-eyed leader of the Taliban had died in 2013, although it offered few details surrounding his demise beyond the month — April — and the location — a hospital in the Pakistani city of Karachi.
While Mullah Omar has been reported dead several times before, on Thursday the Taliban confirmed that this time it was real.
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