The Afghan Taliban has named one of its former leader’s deputies as its new leader.
ADVERTISEMENTThe Afghan Taliban has named one of its former leader’s deputies as its new leader.
Haibatullah Akhunzada was named following a meeting of the Taliban’s leadership council.
He will replace former chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was killed along with his driver in a US drone strike over the weekend
They had just crossed the border from Iran into Pakistan.
Some Taliban members believe Mansour may be been traced and later killed because a photo was shared after he became leader last year.
Meanwhile the Taliban says it was behind a suicide attack that killed at least ten people on a bus carrying workers from an appeal court west of the Afghan capital Kabul.