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Afghanistan Says Mullah Omar, Taliban Leader, Died in 2013

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After months of speculation, Afghan officials announced Wednesday that they were now certain that the Taliban’s reclusive leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, died in a Pakistani hospital in 2013. The announcement is not likely to conclusively settle the question of Mullah Omar’s fate. Afghan officials offered no evidence regarding his death or how they had come to find out about it. And though American officials called the report credible, they, too, were publicly reticent about details or to explain how the news was only coming to light now, even as the Taliban insurgency is gaining momentum on Afghan battlefields.

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