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Akhtar Mohammad Mansour (/ˈɑːktɑːr ˈmɑːnsʊər, ˈæktɑːr ˈmænsʊər/; Pashto: اختر محمد منصور; c. 1968 – 21 May 2016) was the leader of the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan, from July 29 2015 to May 21 2016, when Mansour was killed in a drone strike by the United States in Pakistan.