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The longtime trusted deputy of former leader Mullah Omar is facing staunch internal resistance from some members of the Taliban’s ruling council, the Quetta Shura, who accuse Pakistan of hijacking the movement.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Amid deepening rift among the Taliban leadership following Mullah Mohammad Omar’s death confirmation, the Islamic State Of Iraq and Syria (ISSI) terrorist group has claimed breakthrough in its efforts to gain a foothold in the country.

“A suicide bomber on foot blew himself up near the academy”, said Deputy Interior Ministry Spokesman Najib Danish. The attacker set off the explosives Friday evening just as the academy’s cadets were getting back from a break. A bomb hidden in a truck exploded...

So what is going on? Enemies are endeavoring to “fracture and undermine the Taliban’s jihad and empower themselves”, he said.

“This confirmation of his death will spark a messy, drawn-out, and likely violent leadership crisis”, Kugelman told AFP.

Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor will serve as the group’s new leader, the Taliban confirmed in a statement Friday.

That’s when Yaqoob, and his principal backer, Zakir, a senior Taliban military commander, sacked by Akhtar Mansoor in April 2014, began whispering about the likelihood of Omar’s possible death.

The Camp Integrity assault followed a suicide bombing at a police academy on Friday evening that killed and wounded more than 40 people, the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Saturday.

August 8 One member of Afghanistan’s North Atlantic Treaty Organisation force and two insurgents were killed in an overnight battle at a base used by special forces in Kabul, a U.S. official said on Saturday.

A wave of attacks on Afghan police, army and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation installations in Kabul has killed at least 42 people and wounded hundreds, dashing hopes that Taliban insurgents might be weakened by a leadership struggle after news of their longtime leader’s...

Earlier, reports had said that following Omar’s death, Mansour was elected as the group’s leader after the Taliban Shura Council met at an undisclosed location in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan to decide on Omar’s replacement.

Policemen keep watch at the site of a bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Said to be in his mid-80s, Haqqani fought against the 1980s Soviet occupation of Afghanistan as a commander of the Hizb-e-Islami Yunus Khalis group but is more noted for the role his Haqqani network faction of the Taliban played in attacking U.S.-led foreign forces after they...

The Taliban on Friday formally announced their new leader, saying he had been running the insurgent group’s operations for years in the absence of former leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.