Editing Mullah Omar (section)

== After the U.S. invasion (2001–2013) ==
=== Seclusion ===
On 5 December 2001, Omar held a meeting in Kandahar of top Taliban leaders and asked them what they wanted to do. Many were ready to stop fighting and willing to surrender. Omar handed over the Taliban leadership to his defence minister, Mullah [[Obaidullah Akhund|Obaidullah]], in writing. Two days later Omar left Kandahar and went into hiding in [[Zabul province]] in Afghanistan.<ref name=Dam_Zomia>{{cite web |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bf5692f4611a019a7c69ea6/t/5c77f4fdeef1a10b17f2abda/1551365379168/Secret+Life+of+Mullah+Omar-FINAL3.pdf |title=The Secret Life of Mullah Omar |first=Bette |last=Dam |date=2019 |publisher=Zomia Center |access-date=24 September 2021}}</ref><ref name="tg1">{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/10/fugitive-taliban-leader-mullah-omar-lived-short-walk-from-us-base-book-claims |title=Fugitive Taliban leader lived short walk from US base, book reveals|date=10 March 2019 |work=The Guardian|author=Emma Graham-Harrison}}</ref> In the following years, there was speculation about his location{{snd}}with some believing that he went to Pakistan along with other Taliban leaders{{snd}}and his circumstances and purported communications. But according to [[Bette Dam]], in research published in 2019, and Borhan Osman, a senior analyst at International Crisis Group (ICG), Omar spent the rest of his life living in Zabul province.<ref name="wsj1">{{cite web |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-last-days-of-taliban-head-mullah-omar-11552226401 |title=The Last Days of Taliban Head Mullah Omar |date=10 March 2019|work=Wall Street Journal |first=Jessica |last=Donati}}</ref> Dam said that her research relied on interviews with current and former members of the Afghan government, the Afghan intelligence agency [[National Directorate of Security]], the Taliban, and Omar's bodyguard Jabbar Omari. She said that her findings, confirmed by Afghan officials as well as the Talibans, depicted the US intelligence failure and cast even further doubt on US claims in the Afghan war.<ref name=Dam_Zomia />

Omar was protected in hiding by Jabbar Omari, a former Taliban [[List of governors of Baghlan|governor of Baghlan province]], who was from Zabul province and belonged to the Hotak tribe, as Omar did. They spent four years living in the provincial capital [[Qalat, Afghanistan|Qalat]] at a private home owned by Abdul Samad Ustaz, Omari's former driver. Omar's wives moved to Pakistan and Omar declined when Omari offered to bring his son to visit. He had very little active involvement in the Taliban from the end of 2001. He sent a cassette tape to the rest of the Taliban leadership in Quetta in 2003, reaffirming that Obaidullah was the supreme leader and naming who should be on [[Quetta Shura|the leadership shura]] (council). The shura sent a messenger every three to seven months, when they wanted his advice on some matter. He sent at least one other cassette tape, in 2007, but stopped that practice after the messenger was briefly detained in Pakistan, and thereafter messages were just relayed person-to-person. Omar kept in touch with events in the world by listening to BBC Pashto radio. [[Bette Dam]] wrote, "Though Mullah Omar did not venture outside for fear of being caught, according to Jabbar Omari, in the four years they hid in that home, they felt relatively safe." The house was searched by the US military once, but they did not enter the concealed room where Omar was hiding.<ref name=Dam_Zomia /><ref name=tg1 />

After the US established [[Forward Operating Base Lagman]] a few hundred metres from the house in 2004, Omar relocated to a shack in a remote hamlet on the edge of a river, about 20 miles southeast of Qalat in [[Shinkay District]], close to the [[Durand Line]]. His hideout was connected to underground irrigation channels that ran up into the hills. Soon after moving there, the US started building Forward Operating Base (FOB) Wolverine an hour's walk or about three miles away, but Omar stayed put. The FOB eventually housed about 1,000 United States troops, and sometimes other NATO troops.<ref name=Dam_Zomia /> To avoid detection, he would occasionally hide in the underground irrigation tunnels connected to his hideout, as US planes flew over or if US or Afghan troops came to search the area. People in the village knew that Taliban personnel were living there and offered gifts of clothes and food to Omari and Omar.<ref name=Dam_Zomia /> In 2019, the Taliban released a picture of the supposed hideout where Omar spent the last years of his life.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/11/taliban-back-report-mullah-omar-hid-death-afghanistan-near-us/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/11/taliban-back-report-mullah-omar-hid-death-afghanistan-near-us/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Taliban release pictures of Mullah Omar's 'hideout in Afghanistan'|date=11 March 2019|work=Telegraph UK|author=Ben Farmer and Saleem Mehsud}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The pictures show a modest mud house with a small garden in which Omar "used to sit in the sun", according to a Taliban spokesman.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taliban-leader-mullah-omar-hid-mud-house-afghanistan-militant-group-n982036|title=Taliban leader Mullah Omar hid in mud house in Afghanistan, militant group says|date=12 March 2019|publisher=NBC News|author=Mushtaq Yusufzai and F. Brinley Bruton}}</ref>

Jabbar Omari said that Omar grew ill in 2013, refusing to visit a doctor and dying of illness on 23 April. Omari and two helpers buried him that night, with Omari videoing the burial as proof. Omari went to Quetta, returning with Omar's son Yaqoob and brother [[Abdul Manan Omari]], who had not seen him since 2001. Yaqoob insisted that the grave be opened so that he could see his father. Omari went to Quetta and met with ten senior Taliban to describe the 12 years he spent with Omar. Obaidullah had died in 2010 and [[Akhtar Mansour]] was the operational leader of the Taliban. Four religious scholars at the meeting decided that Mansour should continue as leader, but that Omar's death and Mansour's succession should not be disclosed publicly yet, while the United States was preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan. Some at the meeting unsuccessfully argued for openness.<ref name="Dam_Zomia" /> Omar's death remained a secret for two years.<ref name="tg1" /> The Taliban were extremely successful at keeping Omar's death hidden during these two years even from highly experienced experts on the upper echelons of the Taliban. Afghanistan and Pakistan analyst [[Michael Semple]], for example, wrote in a December 2014 report that "Mullah Omar remains the Taliban supreme leader and the source of all authority in the movement."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maley |first1=William |title=The Afghanistan Wars |year= 2020 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-352-01101-2 |pages=242–243 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PpJKEAAAQBAJ&q=william+maley |language=en}}</ref>

=== Suspected activities ===
Some believed that Omar hid in the mountains of southern Afghanistan for over a year before he fled to neighboring Pakistan in late 2002. He continued to receive the allegiance of prominent pro-Taliban military leaders in the region, including [[Jalaluddin Haqqani]]. According to sources, he lived somewhere in [[Karachi]] for a time, where he worked as a potato trader to escape detection; a city where he had lived in already and visited for many years before the group's emergence in the 1990s.<ref name="McClatchy">{{cite news |date=4 August 2015 |url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article29940219.html |access-date=4 August 2015 |title=Mullah Omar worked as potato vendor to escape detection in Pakistan}}</ref> The United States offered a reward of US$10&nbsp;million for information leading to his capture.<ref name="rjfEnglish" />

In April 2004, Omar was interviewed via phone by Pakistani journalist Mohammed Shehzad.<ref name="rediff">{{cite web |title=The Rediff Interview/Mullah Omar |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/apr/12inter.htm |access-date=23 January 2013 |work=[[Rediff.com]] |date=12 April 2004}}</ref> During the interview, Omar claimed that [[Osama bin Laden]] was alive and well, and that his last contact with Bin Laden was months before the interview. Omar declared that the Taliban were "hunting Americans like pigs".<ref name="rediff" />

In the years following the allied invasion, numerous statements were released that were identified as coming from Omar. In June 2006, a statement regarding the death of [[Abu Musab al-Zarqawi]] in Iraq was released by Omar and in it, he hailed al-Zarqawi as a martyr and he also claimed that the resistance movements in Afghanistan and Iraq "will not be weakened".<ref>{{cite news |work=BBC News |date=9 June 2006 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5062964.stm |access-date=2 July 2006 |title=Taliban play down Zarqawi death}}</ref> Then, in December 2006, Omar reportedly issued a statement expressing confidence that foreign forces will be driven out of Afghanistan.<ref>{{Cite news |publisher=[[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]] |date=31 December 2006 |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2006/12/200852513171162862.html |access-date=1 January 2007 |title=Mullah Omar issues Eid message}}</ref>

In January 2007, it was reported that Omar made his "first exchange with a journalist since he went into hiding" in 2001 with [[Muhammad Hanif (Taliban spokesperson)|Muhammad Hanif]] via email and courier. In it he promised "more Afghan War", and he also said that the more than one hundred suicide bomb attacks which occurred in Afghanistan in the last year had been carried out by bombers who acted on religious orders which they received from the Taliban{{snd}}"the [[Mujahideen|mujahedeen]] do not take any action without a [[fatwa]]."<ref>{{cite news |author=Ismail Khan |author2=Carlotta Gall |date=5 January 2007 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/05/world/asia/05taliban.html |title=Taliban Leader Promises More Afghan War |newspaper=The New York Times |page=A4 |access-date=31 March 2013}}</ref> In April 2007, Omar issued another statement through an intermediary in which he encouraged more suicide attacks.<ref>{{cite news|work=Reuters|date=21 April 2007|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSISL330010._CH_.2400|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912064751/http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSISL330010._CH_.2400|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 September 2012|access-date=19 August 2009|title=Taliban's elusive leader urges more suicide raids}}</ref>

In November 2009, ''The Washington Times'' claimed that Omar, assisted by Pakistan's [[Inter-Services Intelligence]] (ISI), had moved back to Karachi in October.<ref>{{Cite news |first1=Eli |last1=Lake |last2=Carter |first2=Sara A. |last3=Slavin |first3=Barbara |title=EXCLUSIVE: Taliban chief hides in Pakistan |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/20/taliban-chief-takes-cover-in-pakistan-populace/ |work=[[The Washington Times]] |date=20 November 2009 |access-date=20 November 2009}}</ref> In January 2010, Brigadier [[Amir Sultan Tarar]], a retired officer with ISI who had previously trained Omar, said that he was ready to break with his al-Qaida allies and make peace in Afghanistan: "The moment he gets control, the first target will be the al-Qaida people."<ref>{{cite news |author=Declan Walsh |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/29/taliban-afghanistan-mullah-muhammad-omar |title=Afghan Taliban leader ready to end al-Qaida ties, says former trainer |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=31 July 2015 |access-date=31 March 2013}}</ref>

In January 2011, ''The Washington Post'', citing a report which was published by the [[Eclipse Group]], a privately operated intelligence network that may be contracted by the CIA, stated that Omar had a [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]] on 7 January 2011. According to the report, Pakistan's ISI rushed Omar to a hospital near Karachi where he was operated on, treated, and then released several days later. Pakistan's Ambassador to the US, stated that the report "had no basis whatsoever".<ref>[[Agence France-Presse]], "Pakistan 'treated Taliban leader'", ''[[Japan Times]]'', 20 January 2011, p. 1.</ref>

On 23 May 2011, [[TOLO News]] in Afghanistan quoted unnamed sources as saying that Omar had been killed by ISI two days earlier. Taliban spokesman [[Zabihullah Mujahid]] responded to the report by stating, "He is in Afghanistan safe and sound."<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-omar-idUSTRE74M0O220110523 |work=Reuters |title=Afghan Taliban say leader Mullah Omar 'safe and sound' |date=23 May 2011}}</ref> On 20 July 2011, phone text messages which were delivered from accounts which were used by Mujahid and fellow spokesman [[Qari Mohammad Yousuf|Qari Mohammed Yousuf]] announced Omar's death. However, Mujahid and Yousuf quickly denied sending the messages and they claimed that their mobile phones, websites, and e-mail accounts had all been hacked, and they swore revenge on the telephone network providers.<ref>Shalizi, Hamid, [[Reuters]], "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110723120656/http://news.yahoo.com/taliban-mullah-omar-death-report-false-phone-hacked-033522641.html Taliban say Mullah Omar death report false, phone hacked]", [[Yahoo! News]], 20 July 2011.</ref> In 2012, it was revealed that an individual claiming to be Omar sent a letter to President Barack Obama in 2011, expressing slight interest in peace talks.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9060564/Taliban-leader-Mullah-Omar-sent-letter-to-Barack-Obama.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9060564/Taliban-leader-Mullah-Omar-sent-letter-to-Barack-Obama.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Taliban leader Mullah Omar 'sent letter to Barack Obama' |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |date=3 February 2012|access-date=3 February 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-taliban-letter-idUSTRE8121M520120203 |title=Amid peace bid, U.S. received purported letter from Taliban |work=Reuters |date=3 February 2012|access-date=3 February 2012}}</ref>

'''After Omar's confirmed death (April 2013):'''

On 31 May 2014, five senior Afghan detainees were released from the [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]] in Cuba in return for the release of American prisoner of war Sergeant [[Bowe Bergdahl]]{{snd}}a person claiming to be Omar reportedly hailed their release.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27655308 |work=BBC News |title=Bowe Bergdahl: Chuck Hagel praises release special forces |date=1 June 2014 |access-date=18 August 2014}}</ref>

In December 2014, acting Afghan intelligence chief [[Rahmatullah Nabil]] stated that he was not sure "whether Omar is alive or dead". This statement was made after the Afghan intelligence agency published reports in which it revealed that fracturing was occurring within the Taliban movement, leading some reporters to speculate that a leadership struggle had ensued because Omar had died.<ref>{{cite news |title=Taliban Supreme leader Mullah Omar has possibly died |newspaper= The Khaama Press News Agency |url= http://www.khaama.com/taliban-supreme-leader-mullah-omar-has-possibly-died-8778 |date=19 November 2014 |access-date=1 January 2015}}</ref> Later reports which were released by Afghan intelligence in December said that Omar had been hiding in Karachi. An anonymous European intelligence official stated that "there's a consensus among all three branches of the Afghan security forces that Omar is alive. Not only do they think he's alive, they say they have a good understanding of where exactly he is in Karachi."<ref>{{cite news |first=Matthew |last=Rosenberg |title=Around an Invisible Leader, Taliban Power Shifts |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/29/world/around-an-invisible-leader-taliban-power-shifts.html |date=28 December 2014 |page=A3 |access-date=1 January 2015}}</ref>

In April 2015, a man who claimed to be Mullah Omar issued a [[fatwa]] which decreed that pledges of allegiance to the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] (ISIS) are forbidden by Islamic law. The man described ISIS leader [[Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]] as a "fake [[Caliphate|caliph]]", and he also said that "Baghdadi just wanted to dominate what has so far been achieved by the real jihadists of Islam after three decades of jihad. A pledge of allegiance to him is '[[haram]]'."<ref>{{cite web|title=Taliban leader: allegiance to ISIS 'haram'|url=http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/130420151|agency=Rudaw|date=13 April 2015 |access-date=31 July 2015}}</ref>

=== 2015 announcement of his death ===
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On 29 July 2015, Abdul Hassib Seddiqi, the spokesman for Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security, said "officially" that Mohammed Omar had died at a hospital in [[Karachi]], Pakistan, in April 2013,<ref name=APNews_20150730>{{cite news |last=O'Donnell |first=Lynne |date=30 July 2015 |url= https://apnews.com/article/8aea0d55437f4bac9f0356cf0510a69b |title=Afghanistan says Taliban leader Mullah Omar died 2 years ago |newspaper=AP News |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=27 September 2021}}</ref> and the office of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani confirmed that information on his death was "credible".<ref name="BBC33703097">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-33703097 |title=Mullah Omar: Taliban leader 'died in Pakistan in 2013' |date=29 July 2015|work=BBC News |access-date=25 September 2021}}</ref> Pakistani newspaper ''[[The Express Tribune]]'' reported that a former Taliban minister and current leadership council member, who spoke anonymously, said Omar died from [[tuberculosis]].<ref name="time-2015">{{Cite magazine|author=Nikhil Kumar|date=29 July 2015|title=Mullah Omar Taliban Death|magazine=Time|url=https://time.com/3976472/mullah-omar-taliban-death/|access-date=29 July 2015}}</ref><ref name="auto2">{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/07/29/taliban-leader-mullah-omar/30819359/|title=Afghan intel agency: Taliban leader died two years ago |date=29 July 2015 |website=USA Today}}</ref><ref name="NYT_July2">{{cite news |last1=Goldstein |first1=Joseph |last2=Shah |first2=Taimoor |date=30 July 2015 |title=Death of Mullah Omar Exposes Divisions Within Taliban |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/world/asia/taliban-confirm-death-of-mullah-omar-and-weigh-successor.html |access-date=31 July 2015}}<!-- This reference is used in at least two more locations. --></ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Graham-Harrison |first=Emma |date=14 September 2021 |title=Questions in Kabul as two top Taliban leaders 'missing from public view' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/14/questions-in-kabul-as-two-top-taliban-leaders-missing-from-public-view |access-date=14 September 2021 |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |quote=The group's record may have fuelled the theories. The death of founding leader Mullah Mohammad Omar was concealed for two years and, during that time, the Taliban continued to issue statements in his name.}}</ref><ref name="BBC33703097" />

The following day, the Taliban confirmed that he was dead,<ref name="NYT_July">{{cite news|last1=Goldstein|first1=Joseph|last2=Shah|first2=Taimoor|date=30 July 2015|title=Death of Mullah Omar Exposes Divisions Within Taliban|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/world/asia/taliban-confirm-death-of-mullah-omar-and-weigh-successor.html|access-date=31 July 2015}}<!-- This reference is used in at least two more locations. --></ref> but denied that he died in Pakistan.<ref name="Dawn">{{cite news|title=Mullah Omar did not die in Pakistan, say Afghan Taliban|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1197371/|date=30 July 2015|work=Dawn News|access-date=31 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801233916/http://www.dawn.com/news/1197371|archive-date=1 August 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Other Taliban members stated that his death occurred in Afghanistan. According to an official statement by Pakistani defence minister [[Khawaja Asif]], "Mullah Omar neither died nor was buried in Pakistan and his sons' statements are on record to support this. Whether he died now or two years ago is another controversy which we do not wish to be a part of. He was neither in Karachi nor in [[Quetta]]."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/933944/mullah-omar-did-not-die-in-pakistan-asif-tells-na/|title=Mullah Omar did not die in Pakistan, defence minister tells NA|work=The Express Tribune|date=7 August 2015|access-date=7 August 2015}}</ref>

Afghan officials report that Omar was buried in [[Zabul province]], a province in southern Afghanistan.<ref name="tel1">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/11770159/Taliban-supreme-leader-Mullah-Omar-is-dead.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/11770159/Taliban-supreme-leader-Mullah-Omar-is-dead.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar 'is dead' |date=29 July 2015 |access-date=29 July 2015|work=Telegraph UK|author=Muhammad Zubair Khan and Andrew Marszal}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Atta Mohammed Haqyar, head of Zabul's provincial council, believed that Omar was buried in a cemetery in Sarkhogan area of [[Shinkay District|Shinkay]] district in Zabul province. Several senior Taliban commanders have also been buried in Sarkhogan area. He further stated that the area had special significance for the [[Hotak]] tribe which Omar was from.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.khaama.com/search-underway-for-mullah-omars-grave-in-zabul-3750/|title=Search underway for Mullah Omar's grave in Zabul|access-date=13 August 2015|work=Khaama Press}}</ref>

Sources close to the Taliban leadership said his deputy, [[Akhtar Mansoor]], would replace him, although with the lesser title of Supreme Leader.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}} It was confirmed by a senior Taliban member that Omar's death was kept a secret for two years.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/taliban-leader-facing-tension-top-official-quits-084411182.html|title=New Taliban leader facing tension as top official quits|date=4 August 2015|work=Yahoo News|access-date=6 August 2015}}</ref>

[[Fidai Mahaz]], a Taliban splinter group, claimed that Omar did not die of natural causes; rather he was killed in his hideout in Zabul province.<ref name="Mirror">{{cite web|date=21 August 2015|title=Why the Taliban murdered their own leader and the terrifying fallout now threatening the West|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/taliban-murdered-leader-terrifying-fallout-6296603|access-date=22 August 2015|website=The Mirror}}</ref>

Many Islamist and jihadist movements expressed condolences following Omar's death, including [[Ajnad al-Kavkaz]],<ref>{{cite web |url= https://twitter.com/Weissenberg7/status/627178879925551104 |title=Ajnad al Kavkaz sending condolences to the Taliban on the death of Mullah Omar |last=Weiss |first=Caleb |date=31 July 2015 |website=Twitter }}</ref> [[Ansar Al-Furqan]],<ref>{{cite web |url= https://twitter.com/Weissenberg7/status/627183045003616256 |title=Ansar al Furqan's statement of condolences on the death of "Emir al Mumineen" Mullah Omar |last=Weiss |first=Caleb |date= 31 July 2015|website=Twitter }}</ref> [[Islamic Front (Syria)|Islamic Front]]'s [[Ahrar al-Sham]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/08/syrian-jihadists-honor-mullah-omar-praise-talibans-radical-state.php |title=Jihadists in Syria honor Mullah Omar, praise Taliban's radical state|website=The Long War Journal|date= 4 August 2015|last=Joscelyn |first=Thomas |publisher=Foundation for Defense of Democracies}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Westall |first= Sylvia |editor-last= Lidstone |editor-first= Digby |date=1 August 2015 |title=Syrian Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham mourns Taliban leader |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-taliban-syria-ahrar-idUSKCN0Q63BV20150801 |work= Reuters |location= BEIRUT}}</ref> [[Jaish Muhammad]],<ref>{{cite web |url= https://twitter.com/Weissenberg7/status/627466127212457984 |title=Jaish Muhammad, a foreign led group in #Syria, sends condolences on the death of "Emir al Mumineen" Mullah Omar. |last=Weiss |first=Caleb |date= 1 August 2015 |website=Twitter }}</ref> [[Ansar al-Din Front]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/Weissenberg7/status/627542649638125568 |title=Jabhat Ansar al Din coalition sending condolences on the death of 'Emir al Mumineen' Mullah Omar |last=Weiss |first=Caleb |date=1 August 2015 |website=Twitter }}</ref> [[Turkistan Islamic Party]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/Weissenberg7/status/627973122675838976 |title=TIP in #Syria sending condolences on the death of "Emir al Mumineen" Mullah Omar via @VegetaMoustache |last=Weiss |first=Caleb |date=2 August 2015 |website=Twitter }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://jihadology.net/2015/08/03/new-statement-from-%E1%B8%A5izb-al-islami-al-turkistani-in-bilad-al-sham-concerning-the-death-of-mulla-mu%E1%B8%A5mmad-umar/ |title=New statement from Ḥizb al-Islāmī al-Turkistānī in Bilād al-Shām: "Concerning the Death of Mullā Muḥmmad 'Umar" |last1=Zelin |first1= Aaron Y. |date=3 August 2015|website=JIHADOLOGY }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=المرصد السوري |url=http://www.syriahr.com/?p=127156 |title="الحزب الإسلامي التركستاني لنصرة أهل الشام" يعزي بـ "وفاة أمير المؤمنين الملا عمر" &#124; المرصد السورى لحقوق الإنسان |website=Syriahr.com |date=2 August 2015 |access-date=13 May 2016}}</ref> [[Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/Weissenberg7/status/628383284343500800 |title=Jamaat Ansar al Sunnah sending condolences on the death of Mullah Omar |last=Weiss |first=Caleb |date=3 August 2015 |website=Twitter }}</ref> [[Jaish al Ummah]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/Weissenberg7/status/628550091436068864 |title=Jaish al Ummah sending condolences on the death of Mullah Omar via @VegetaMoustache |last=Weiss |first=Caleb |date=4 August 2015 |website=Twitter }}</ref> [[Jamaat-ul-Ahrar]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/Weissenberg7/status/628552760062013440 |title=TTP Jamaat ul Ahrar sending condolences on the death of 'Emir al Mumineen' Mullah Omar via @VegetaMoustache |last=Weiss |first=Caleb |date=4 August 2015 |website=Twitter }}</ref> [[Caucasus Emirate]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/Weissenberg7/status/628553590815236096 |title=Audio statement from the emir of the Caucasus Emirate Abu Usman on the death of Mullah Omar via @VegetaMoustache |last=Weiss |first=Caleb |date=4 August 2015 |website=Twitter }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/Weissenberg7/status/628590843528671232 |title=Written Arabic statement of condolences on death of 'Emir al Mumineen' Mullah Omar from the Caucasus Emirate ... |last=Weiss |first=Caleb |date=4 August 2015 |website=Twitter }}</ref> [[Jaish al-Islam]],<ref>{{cite web |url= https://twitter.com/Weissenberg7/status/628631649253748736 |title=Jaish al Islam in Palestine sending condolences on the death of 'Emir al Mumineen' Mullah Omar |last=Weiss |first=Caleb |date=31 July 2015 |website=Twitter }}</ref> [[Al-Nusra Front]], [[Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula|AQAP]], [[al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb|AQIM]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/Weissenberg7/status/628980812151681024 |title=Joint statement from AQIM, AQAP, and Al Nusrah (AQ in Syria) on death of "Emir al Mumineen" Mullah Omar |last=Weiss |first=Caleb |date=31 July 2015 |website=Twitter }}</ref> and [[Al-Shabaab (militant group)|Al-Shabaab]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/Weissenberg7/status/631942600031731712 |title=Shabaab sending condolences on the death of 'Emir al Mumineen' Mullah Omar via @VegetaMoustache |last=Weiss |first=Caleb |date=31 July 2015 |website=Twitter }}</ref>

Conversely, the Afghan government was unsympathetic to mourning his death; security forces were ordered to prevent citizens from publicly grieving Omar. A [[National Directorate of Security]] (NDS) spokesman said that Omar was "the biggest cause of war and backwardness in the modern history of Afghanistan", adding that any ceremony for Omar would be an "insult" to victims of the Taliban.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Kabul Unsympathetic To Mourning Mullah Omar |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-mullah-omar-mourning-security-forces/27170421.html |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty |language=en|last1=Najibullah |first1=Farangis }}</ref> Meanwhile, thousands of Afghans nationwide took part in rallies on 4 August, denouncing Omar.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-mullah-omar-mourning-security-forces/27170421.html|title = Kabul Unsympathetic to Mourning Mullah Omar| newspaper=Radiofreeeurope/Radioliberty | last1=Najibullah | first1=Farangis }}</ref>

After his death, the [[Taliban]] regained control of Afghanistan as the [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan|Second Islamic Emirate]] following the [[Fall of Kabul (2021)|Fall of Kabul]] during the [[2021 Taliban offensive|Taliban offensive]]. During this time the location of Mullah Omar's grave was indirectly revealed. The grave is situated in the Suri district of [[Zabul Province]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-06 |title=Taliban Reveal Burial Place of Founder Mullah Omar, Nine Years After Death |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/taliban-reveal-burial-place-of-founder-mullah-omar-nine-years-after-death-/6823191.html |access-date=2023-11-18 |website=Voice of America |language=en}}</ref>