Are Ilhan Omar's parents still living, and where do they reside now?
Executive summary
Ilhan Omar’s father, Nur Omar Mohamed, died in June 2020 from complications of COVID‑19, a fact Omar announced publicly and was reported by TIME and her congressional office [1] [2]. Available sources provided do not state that her mother is currently living; multiple biographical pieces report Omar’s mother died when Ilhan was a toddler [3] [4].
1. The father’s death is public and confirmed
Rep. Omar issued a statement saying her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, “passed away today due to complications from COVID‑19,” and the congresswoman’s office posted that release on June 15, 2020; TIME also reported the death the same week [1] [2]. Congressional and media records in the provided reporting uniformly treat Nur Omar Mohamed as deceased [1] [2].
2. The mother’s status in the reporting: death in childhood
Several biographical sources in the provided set state Ilhan Omar’s mother, named in some accounts as Fadhuma Abukar (or Fadhuma Abukar Haji Hussein), died when Omar was about two years old; those accounts characterize her mother as having passed during Omar’s early childhood [3] [4]. The sources here present that as established background to Omar’s refugee and family narrative [3] [4].
3. What the sources do not say — current living parents
None of the supplied materials say that either parent is currently living; the father is explicitly reported dead [1] [2], and the mother is reported to have died when Omar was a small child [3] [4]. Available sources do not mention any other current residence for her parents because both are treated in the reporting as deceased or deceased in childhood [1] [2] [3] [4].
4. Where those reports come from and how reliable they are
The father’s death is documented on Rep. Omar’s official House website posting and picked up by established outlets like TIME, which are primary or mainstream sources for such announcements [1] [2]. The mother’s death is referenced in multiple biographical summaries [3] [4]; those are standard background items in profiles but in the provided set are not linked to a contemporaneous primary source like a death notice or family statement in the same way as the 2020 father announcement [3] [4].
5. Claims and controversies not corroborated here
Recent, partisan claims and allegations about Omar’s family roles in Somali military events or other disputed narratives appear in other items in the results but are not confirmed as fact in reliable primary sources cited here. For example, a 2025 piece alleging Nur Omar Mohamed’s involvement in wartime abuses appears among search results, but Snopes concluded there was still no evidence of such war‑crime allegations as of its April 2025 reporting [5] [6]. Use caution: the supplied sources show competing narratives and fact checks [5] [6].
6. Bottom line and limitations
Based on the materials provided, Ilhan Omar’s father died in June 2020 from COVID‑19 complications and her mother died when Omar was a toddler; the reporting here does not identify either parent as currently living or provide a present residence for them [1] [2] [3] [4]. If you want independent confirmation of names, dates, or any later reporting that might revise these details, that information is not found in the current set of sources and would require checking primary records or additional news archives beyond those provided (not found in current reporting).