Akhtar Mansour, the leader of the Taliban, is dead. As he was returning from Iran, his car was hit by a missile fired from an American military drone in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province.

PESHAWAR: A top cleric and four worshippers were killed and 20 others injured in a blast triggered by a suicide bomber during Friday prayers at a seminary in northwest Pakistan's restive Khyber ...

A number of leading members of the Taliban, including former chief Akhtar Mansour, studied here. Rescue teams rushed to the site and removed the bodies and evacuated the injured to the hospital.

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Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada He is the Taliban’s supreme leader, a position he took following the death of his predecessor, Akhtar Mansour, in a 2016 U.S. drone strike. He previously served as ...