Mullah Sangeen Zadran (1976 or 1979 − 5 September 2013) was an Afghan militant and shadow governor of

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. Zadran was an operational commander of the

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, an Islamist insurgent group. He was held responsible for the capture of American soldier

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. In 2011, he was added to the list of specially designated global terrorists by the

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. According to the U.S. military, Zadran was the leader of one of the most

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militant groups based in Afghanistan. He was killed in a CIA drone strike on 5 September 2013. His younger brother, Bilal Zadran, was nominated as the new official commander of the Haqqani group. A photo of Sangeen's corpse was published on a jihadist forum in October 2013.

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