Akhter Mansour
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Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour ملا اختر محمد منصور |
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Akhtar Mansour is seen here in a photo taken in Frankfurt, Germany, during 1998.
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| Supreme leader of the Taliban | |
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In office 29 July 2015 – 21 May 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Mohammed Omar |
| Succeeded by | Hibatullah Akhundzada |
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In office as Minister of Civil Aviation for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from September 1996 – 2001 |
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| Born | 1968 (otherwise) Karize, Band Taimor, Maywand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan |
| Died | 21 May 2016 |
| Alma mater | Darul Uloom Haqqania |
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| Years of service | 1985–1992 1995–2016 |
| Rank | Supreme commander |
| Battles/wars |
Soviet-Afghan War Afghan Civil War War in Afghanistan (2001–2014) |
Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour (Pashto: اختر محمد منصور; /ɑːktɑː mɑːnsʊər/ or /æktɑː mænsʊər/; c. 1968 – 21 May 2016) was the leader of the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan, from 29 July 2015 to 21 May 2016.
On 21 May 2016, Mansour was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan. On 25 May 2016, Hibatullah Akhundzada was promoted to the top position in the Taliban.
Mansoor is thought to have been born either in a village named Kariz or another village named Band-i-Taimoor (source: I.E.A.), both of which are situated within the Maiwand District of Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan, sometime during the 1960s. The biography released by the Talibans' Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan website shows 1347 for his date of birth, which is according to the solar Hijri calendar, which corresponds to 1968. This year of birth is corroborated by S. Mehsud, of the C.T.C. West Point. According to Ahmed Rashid, Mansoor belonged to the Alizai tribe, but other sources claim that he was of the Ishaqzai tribe, in any case, both the Alizai and the Ishaqzai are of the Durrani line of the Pashtun people. Mullah Mansoor was educated at a village mosque and joined primary school at about the age of seven (source: I.E.A.).
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