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...He was a close associate and political adviser to Mullah Omar....
...Mohammad Yaqoob, Taliban founder Omar’s son, has been appointed acting defence minister....
...The return of the exiled King Mohammad Zahir Shah to the throne was also rejected....
...As Ghani later explained on Facebook, he did not want Afghans to see “the president hanged once more” — a reference to Mohammad Najibullah, the communist-era leader who was strung up soon after the Taliban...
...Instead, he was appointed deputy to Mohammad Hassan Akhund, an adviser to the late Taliban founder Mohammed Omar....
...Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the defence minister, has publicly rebuked some of his fighters for poor discipline and engaging in revenge killings....
...Once synonymous with combat fatigues and weapons, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani has undergone an image change, with the Syrian jihadi this month photographed wearing a western-style business suit....
...As smoke billowed into a red sky over Iraq’s holy city of Najaf, 20-year-old Mohammad Abu Sieeda snapped a photo with his iPhone — but this was no ordinary sunset shot....
...Additional reporting by Asmaa al-Omar in Erbil...
...Later that day, Ms Mufti was taken to jail, along with Omar Abdullah, another former chief minister of the state....
...Among the Islamists freed that day was Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British-Pakistani, who went on to murder US journalist Daniel Pearl....
...“On the [east] side there are schools and salaries,” complained Abu Omar, 58, a worker from west Mosul. By contrast in the west, “two years have passed and nothing”....
...Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir, facing his own large-scale protests, became the first Arab League leader to visit Damascus since the body ejected Syria in 2011....
...Yet when that knocking arrives late in this subtle and devastating new work by Syrian exile Mohammad Al Attar, the effect manages to be simultaneously comic and terrifying as Osama (Mohammad Alrashi) hurries...
...When Omar Bakri Mohammed, the Syrian-born preacher, arrived in London in 1986 after being ejected from Saudi Arabia, armed Islamists were viewed as cold war allies of the west....
...Butt was a known member of al-Muhajiroun, founded by Omar Bakri Muhammad, the pro-jihadi Syrian cleric, and tried to convert his neighbours and their children to his version of Islam....
...The attacker, Omar Mateen, was the 50th person killed after police stormed the building to free hostages ● 53 clubbers were wounded in what is the worst mass shooting in modern US history ● In a phone...
...Another bleak reality check came from Syria, with Omar Abusaada’s Alors que j’attendais....
...“I will live with this terrible memory all my life,” Mr Mohammad says....
...Ahmad al Mohammad, 25 A Syrian passport in that name was found near the body of one of the men who detonated a suicide vest at the stadium....
...General Sher Mohammad Karimi, the chief of staff between 2010 and 2014, says that those are jobs for the police....
...I felt like Alice after following the white rabbit down the hole, only I’d emerged into the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. I shouldn’t have been surprised....
...Omar al-Shimali, an activist from Azaz/Aleppo, said: “[Russia’s] ally is not Assad. Its ally is the interests in Syria [such as] oil and other resources. Russia runs after its interests....
...The following year, Mateen again drew attention for alleged ties to Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, the first known American suicide bomber to die in Syria....
...Many saw the revelation this summer that the Taliban’s leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, had in fact been dead for two years as likely to fracture the movement....
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