article_snippet.sent: Biography, posted just after midnight on the Afghan Taliban's main website, described Mullah Omar as being actively involved in 'jihadi activities', dispelling speculation that Mullah Omar died long ago. '
article_snippet.sent: Despite being 'regularly tracked by the enemy, no major change and disruption has been observed in the routine works of [Mullah Omar] in... organising the jihadi activities as the leader of the Islamic Emirate,' it said. '
article_snippet.sent: Mullah Omar keenly follows and inspects the... activities against the brutal infidel foreign invaders.'
article_snippet.sent: This announcement is also meant to show that Mullah Omar is alive and well and still in control as the supreme leader of the Afghan Taliban.'
article_snippet.sent: In the past 13 years, Mullah Omar has stayed completely out of the public eye amid growing power struggles within the Afghan Taliban and fears of ISIS' influence in their ranks as an ideological rival.
article_snippet.sent: A US Department of Defense image obtained from November 2001 shows a leaflet the US were then dropping in Afghanistan showing pictures of Taliban leader Mullah Omar with the warning 'We are watching!'
article_snippet.sent: The whereabouts of Taliban leader Mullah Omar remain a mystery but The whereabouts of Omar is believed to be leading the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan from a hiding place somewhere in Pakistan.