Abdul Rauf Aliza
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Mullah Abdul Rauf Aliza (Pashto: ملا عبد الرؤوف; 10 February 1981 – 9 February 2015), widely identified as Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim, was an Afghan militant who served as a senior leader in both the Taliban and ISIS-K.
Abdul Rauf Alizai | |
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Native name | Pashto: ملا عبد الرؤوف |
Born | (1981-02-10)February 10, 1981[1] Helmand Province, Afghanistan |
Died | February 9, 2015(2015-02-09) (aged 33) Helmand Province, Afghanistan |
Cause of death | Drone strike |
Allegiance | Taliban (unknown–2014) ISIS-K (from October 2014) |
Service number | 108 (Internment Serial Number) |
Battles/wars | War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) |
A foot soldier in Taliban leader Mullah Omar’s elite mobile reserve force prior to 9/11, he was detained by the United States after the initial invasion of Afghanistan, and transferred to Guantanamo Bay detention camp, where he was held until 20 December 2007.[1][2] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 108. Following his release, he returned to militancy in Afghanistan, becoming a provincial-level Taliban commander.[3] After falling out with Taliban leadership in 2014, Rauf swore allegiance to ISIS and was named deputy commander of its Afghanistan-Pakistan based Wilayah Khorasan branch (ISIS-K), before being killed by a US drone strike in February 2015.[4]