Mullah mansoor biography for kids

2nd supreme leader of the Taliban

Akhtar Mohammad Mansour^[a] (1960s – 21 May 2016) was the second supreme leader of the Taliban. Succeeding the founding leader, Mullah Omar, he was the supreme leader from July 2015 to May 2016, when he was killed in a US drone strike in Balochistan, Pakistan.

United StatespresidentBarack Obama stated that Mansour was killed because he was planning attacks on US targets in Kabul.^[18] Obama hoped Mansour's death would lead to the Taliban joining a peace process.^[19]

Personal life

Mansour was born sometime during either 1960, 1963, 1965 or 1968.^{[12][13][14][15]} According to the Taliban, he is thought to have been born either in a village named Kariz or another village named Band-i-Taimoor, both of which are situated within the Maiwand District of Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan. The biography released on a Taliban website showed his date of birth as 1347 in the solar Hijri calendar, which corresponds to 1968. This year is corroborated by S. Mehsud, of the C.T.C. West Point. According to Ahmed Rashid, Mansour belonged to the Alizai tribe, but other sources claim that he was of the Ishaqzai tribe,^{[note 2]} in any

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