Hamdullah Mukhlis

Mawlawi Hamdullah Mukhlis was a member of Afghan Taliban and the commander of Kabul Corps from 4 October 2021 to 2 November 2021. Maulvi Hamdullah also known as the Conqueror of Kabul because he was the first senior Taliban military commander to enter the Afghan presidential palace on the day of the fall of the capital, Kabul in 2021. Pictures from inside the presidential palace after the takeover showed Maulvi Hamdullah sitting on former US-backed President Ashraf Ghani’s chair. Hamdullah Mukhlis was a member of the Haqqani Network and a senior Badri Special Forces officer. He was killed on 2 November 2021 in a suicide attack on a hospital in Kabul city.