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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.

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.

There were no claims of responsibility late Friday.

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.

The Taliban have also now officially confirmed the NEWS on Thursday that Mullah Omar died of an illness some time ago and that they have elected Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansoor as his successor.

Security officials in Afghanistan say at least 10 people have been killed and more than 120 others sustained injuries when a massive explosion rocked the country’s capital city of Kabul.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency said Wednesday that the reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been dead for more than two years.

The source did not give details of what evidence the Afghan government used to come to the decision, but said it had sufficient information to conclude that Omar died of hepatitis B about two years ago, and his death was kept secret to keep the group together. Truth be told, no...

In an apparent damage-control measure, the Taliban leadership shura was hurriedly convened to nominate the Taliban’s once-upon-a-time civil aviation minister and Omar’s deputy, Akhar Muhammad Mansoor, as the new ameer – also a tacit acknowledgement that the...

Afghanistan’s spy agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), had said in November last year that Omar had possibly died.

He allied himself to the Taliban after they took power in Kabul in 1996, serving as a cabinet minister under the militia’s supreme leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar.

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.