Breakaway Taliban Says Senior Militant Wounded but Alive

A spokesman for a breakaway Taliban faction on Saturday denied reports that a senior figure in the group was killed battling rival insurgents. Mullah Mansoor Dadullah was “seriously wounded'' but still alive, spokesman Manan Niazi said, without providing further details. He said he was relying on battlefield reports from the Khak-e-Afghan district of the southern Zabul province, where rival Taliban groups have been fighting for a week. Officials in Zabul said earlier that...

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