Mullah Rasool

1TV: The leader of a breakaway faction of the Taliban is leading his fighters in Afghanistan, his deputy said on Tuesday, contradicting three senior members of the Islamist group and denying a newspaper report that he had been detained. Three senior Taliban told Reuters that Mullah Mohammad Rasoul, who leads a faction that has rejected the authority of the Islamist movement’s leader, Mullah Mohammad Mansour, had been detained two weeks ago in Baluchistan province on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Click here to read more (external link).