Alwaght-Reports are emerging that the new Afghan Taliban terrorist group chief, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour is possibly dead.
This is after doubt was cast on the authenticity of a purported audio message of Taliban chief in an attempt to rubbish claims he was killed or injured in a fight with rival factions within the terrorist group.
The reports of the gun battle at a meeting in Pakistan emerged last week.
"I have recorded this message to let everyone know that I am alive," a voice, claiming to be Mansoor, says in the recording.
The voice in the 17-minute recording is reported to be similar to previous recordings of Mansoor and Afghan officials said they were working to verify the clip.
However, senior sources within the Taliban have cast doubts about the authenticity of the message.
"I think it's a faked audio. I believe he's dead," an unnamed senior Taliban source said.
A spokesman for Afghanistan's first vice president Abdul Rasheed Dostum had last week claimed Mansoor was wounded in a shootout, while multiple intelligence and militant sources claimed he was dead.
Last Thursday, a spokesman for Mullah Dadullah’s Taliban breakaway faction, Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi, asserted that Mullah Mansour had been killed in the reported shootout at the Quetta meeting.
Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor took over as the head of the Afghan Taliban in July after the death of his predecessor Mullah Omar, who led the terrorist group for almost 20 years but had not been seen in public since the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan.
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Ansarullah
A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite
represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance
Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council
A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban
Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
Wahhabism & Extremism
Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds
Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening
Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda
A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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