Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef is an Afghan diplomat who was the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan before the US invasion of Afghanistan.
Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi is a Bahraini,who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps,in Cuba.
Abdullah Mehsud was a Pashtun militant commander who killed himself with a hand grenade after security forces raided his dwelling in Zhob,Balochistan,Pakistan. He belonged to the Mahsud tribe.
Abdullah Mujahid is a citizen of Afghanistan who is still held in extrajudicial detention after being transferred from United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps,in Cuba —to an Afghan prison. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 1100.
Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost is an Afghan Salafi jihadist militant who served primarily with the Taliban,and later,as a founding member of ISIS–K. Dost's militancy began by age 19,when he left Afghanistan to join the Ikhwan,carrying out the Grand Mosque seizure in Mecca,Saudi Arabia before most of the group were captured and executed,though Dost escaped to Peshawar,Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,Pakistan. By 1986,he had returned to Afghanistan to fight in the Soviet–Afghan War as a member of Jamaat al-Dawah ila al-Quran wal-Sunnah,a Salafist forerunner to the Taliban. Following the Soviet withdrawal,he joined the Taliban as they ascended to power in the 1990s. During the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001,Dost was arrested and held in the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay,Cuba,where he was noted for his poetic writings. In April 2005,he was released following a Combatant Status Review Tribunal,and returned to Peshawar,but was quickly recaptured by the Pakistani ISI,before ultimately being released in a prisoner exchange between Pakistani government and the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) in 2008. From his release from Pakistani custody through 2014,he was active with the Taliban in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region,until swearing allegiance to the Islamic State's Khorasan Province in 2014. In late 2015 he purportedly left ISIS–K and the life of militancy,publicly condemning the group's emir,Hafiz Saeed Khan,as "illiterate" for approving attacks on civilians,however he reportedly maintains his allegiance to the Islamic State and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Said Salih Said Nashir is a citizen of Yemen,held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps,in Cuba. His Internment Serial Number is 841.
Abdul Baseer Nazim is a citizen of Afghanistan who is still held in extrajudicial detention after being transferred from United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps,in Cuba —to an Afghan prison.
Mullah Abdul Rauf Aliza,widely identified as Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim,was an Afghan militant who served as a senior leader in both the Taliban and ISIS-K.
Umar Abdullah Al Kunduzi is a citizen of Afghanistan,who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps,in Cuba.
Sabar Lal Melma was a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps,in Cuba. Sabar Lal Melma's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 801. American intelligence analysts estimate that Sabar Lal Melma was born in 1962,at Darya-e-Pech,Afghanistan.
Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani is a citizen of Pakistan who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps,in Cuba.
Mohammed Abdul Kabir is a senior member of the Taliban leadership who is a militant leader and,since 4 October 2021,the acting third deputy prime minister for political affairs of Afghanistan in the internationally unrecognized Taliban regime. He previously was the acting prime minister of Afghanistan from 16 April 2001 to 13 November 2001.
Shahzada Akhund,known also by the title Mullah,was a Taliban militant commander who was held at Guantanamo Bay following the 2001 ouster of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. He used a false name,Mohammed Yusif Yaqub,and pretended to be an innocent civilian.
Semiannually,the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) publishes an unclassified "Summary of the Reengagement of Detainees Formerly Held at Guantanamo Bay,Cuba". According to ODNI's most recent Reengagement Report,since 2009,when current rules and processes governing transfer of detainees out of Guantanamo were put in place,ODNI assess that 5.1% of detainees –10 men total,2 of whom are deceased –are more likely than not to have reengaged in terrorist activities.
The Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,also translated as the Supreme Council,is an advisory council to the Supreme Leader of Afghanistan. The supreme leader convenes and chairs the council at his sole discretion. He has ultimate authority and may override or circumvent it at any time. It played a key role in directing the Taliban insurgency from Quetta,Pakistan,which led to it being informally referred to as the Quetta Shura at the time.
Abdul Ghani Baradar is an Afghan militant and religious leader who is the acting first deputy prime minister,alongside Abdul Salam Hanafi,of the internationally unrecognized post-2021 Taliban regime in Afghanistan. A co-founder of the Taliban along with Mullah Omar,he was Omar's top deputy from 2002 to 2010,and since 2019 he has been the Taliban's fourth-in-command,as the third of Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada's three deputies.
ʻAbd al-Qayyūm is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words ʻabd and al-Qayyūm,one of the names of God in the Qur'an,which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names. It means "servant of the eternal".
The Mullah Dadullah Front was an insurgent group in Afghanistan that claimed responsibility for a series of bombings and assassinations centered in Kabul.
Akhtar Mohammad Mansour 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.
Taliban (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan)
