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Taliban fighters stand guard near a destroyed car with a launcher system still visible in the back seat. A suspected US drone strike had hit the car, about two kilometres (1.2 miles) from Kabul's airport. Rockets were fired at the airport on Monday where US troops were racing to complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan and evacuate allies under the threat of Islamic State group attacks. IMAGES
The alleged mastermind of the 2014 attack on a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar has been killed in a U.S. drone strike, the Pakistani military said.
Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was likely killed in a U.S. military drone strike in Pakistan authorized by U.S. President Barack Obama, a U.S. official says, speaking on condition of anonymity. Mana Rabiee reports.
The Pentagon confirmed on Tuesday that the leader of al-Qaeda splinter organization the Khorasan group was killed earlier this month, Reuters reported.Muhsin al-Fadhli, part of the terrorist group Khorasan, was traveling on July 8 near Sarmada, a town in northwestern Syria close to the Turkish border when a U.S. drone targeted and struck his vehicle.