{"id":216263,"date":"2016-05-22T14:54:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T14:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=216263"},"modified":"2016-05-22T14:54:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T14:54:48","slug":"taliban-leader-mullah-akhtar-mansour-killed-afghans-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/05\/taliban-leader-mullah-akhtar-mansour-killed-afghans-confirm\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour killed, Afghans confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"
Afghanistan’s spy agency has confirmed that Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been killed, after the US targeted him in a drone strike.<\/p>\n
The drone targeted his vehicle in a remote area of south-west Pakistan, near the Afghan border, on Saturday.<\/p>\n
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Mansour had posed “a continuing, imminent threat to US personnel”.<\/p>\n
Mansour assumed the leadership in July 2015, replacing Taliban founder and spiritual head Mullah Mohammad Omar.<\/p>\n
The Afghan National Security Directorate (NDS) said on Sunday that Mansour had been killed in the Dalbandi area of Balochistan province – the first official confirmation of the killing of the Taliban leader.<\/p>\n
Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and defence ministry spokesman Daulat Waziri also said that Mansour had been killed.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Afghanistan’s spy agency has confirmed that Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been killed, after the US targeted him in a drone strike. The drone targeted his vehicle in a remote area of south-west Pakistan, near the Afghan border, on Saturday. US Secretary of State John Kerry said Mansour had posed “a continuing, imminent threat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n