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.
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. American intelligence analysts estimate that Nashir was born in 1974,in Habilain,Yemen.
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 a Taliban member held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp,in Cuba,until 20 December 2007. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 108.
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,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 and an acting third deputy prime minister,alongside Abdul Ghani Baradar and Abdul Salam Hanafi,of Afghanistan since 4 October 2021. 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 field commander who was held in extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo. 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.
Mahmud Sadik is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps,in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 512.
The Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,also translated as the Supreme Council,is the central governing body of the Taliban and Afghanistan. The Taliban uses a consensus decision-making model among members of the Leadership Council,though the supreme leader,who chairs the council,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 political and religious leader who is the acting first deputy prime minister alongside Abdul Salam Hanafi and Abdul Kabir,of Afghanistan. The 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 is an insurgent group in Afghanistan that has claimed responsibility for a series of bombings and assassinations centered in Kabul.
Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was the second supreme leader of the Taliban,an Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan. 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)
