A doctor examines a dead body shifted to a civil hospital in southwest Pakistan's Quetta, May 22, 2016. Bodies of two people who are suspected to be killed in a Saturday U.S. drone strike in Pakistan have been shifted to a hospital in Quetta for DNA test. Afghan Taliban top leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was reportedly killed by a U.S. drone strike launched at a small town in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan along the Pak-Afghan border, reported local Urdu TV channel ARY on Sunday. [Photo: Xinhua]
KABUL, May 25 -- The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday confirmed the death of its leader Mullah Mansoor in the airstrike over the weekend in a online statement on Wednesday.
The Taliban has appointed Haibtullah Akhondzada as its new leader to replace Mansoor, the militant group said in the statement.
Day|Week