Origins: Mullah Mohammad Fazl is a former Taliban Deputy Defense Minister who was reportedly responsible for the . killing of thousands of Shi'a Afghans between 1996 and 2001. He was classified as ...

Mullah Mohammad Fazl commanded the main force fighting the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in 2001, and served as chief of army staff under the Taliban regime.

Four of the five Taliban members released from Guantanamo Bay by the Obama administration in 2014 in exchange for deserter Bowe Bergdahl are part of the Islamic fundamentalist group's new government.

Mohammad Fazl (second from left) is welcomed at an undisclosed location in Qatar following his release from Guantanamo Bay. AFP/Getty One of the five Guantánamo detainees released as part of the ...

The potential hand-over of Mohammed Fazl, a "high-risk detainee" held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison since early 2002, has set off alarms on Capitol Hill and among some U.S. intelligence ...

Mohammad Fazl, who served as the Taliban’s army chief of staff and deputy defense minister prior to his detention at Guantánamo, did not have a hand in planning the actual 9/11 hijackings. Along with ...

When President Barack Obama announced that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl had been freed after five years of being held by the Taliban, it didn’t take long for commentators to question whether the ...

Taliban forces led by Mohammed Fazl swept through this village on the Shomali plain north of Kabul in 1999 in a scorched-earth offensive that prompted some 300,000 people to flee for their lives.

Mullah Mohammad Fazl. Fazl commanded the main force fighting the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in 2001, and served as chief of army staff under the Taliban regime.