Ruler · 1968 – 2016

Akhtar Mansur

Lived 1968 – 2016; politician. Supreme Leader of Afghanistan (Afghanistan), 2015 – 2016.

Wikidata's English label: Akhtar Mansour.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1968 – 2016; 48 years
In office: 1 year; one reign
Lines: 1; Afghanistan
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Supreme Leader of Afghanistan

Afghanistan · the 4th of 5 dated reigns · 1996 – 2021

Mullah Omar1996 – 2001

Burhanuddin Rabbani2001

Ashraf Ghani2014 – 2021

Akhtar Mansur2015 – 2016

Hibatullah Akhundzada2021 – …

killed, executed or dead in battleleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 2015 – 2016 · 1 year · came to it aged 47

Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide; drone warfare

the article also: killed

On 21 May 2016, Mansur was killed in a U.S. military drone strike on the N-40 National Highway in Pakistan near Ahmad Wal, not far from the Pakistan–Afghanistan border; Mansur had crossed earlier that day from Iran into Pakistan through the Taftan, Balochistan border crossing, some 450 kilometres (2…

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