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Taliban Likely to Revenge Leader's Death - Russian Presidential Envoy

© AP Photo / Rahmat GulNewspapers hang for sale at a stand carrying headlines about the former leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike last week, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Newspapers hang for sale at a stand carrying headlines about the former leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike last week, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - Sputnik International
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The Taliban insurgents are likely to try taking revenge for the death of the movement's leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, Russian President's special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said Wednesday.

Afghan alleged former Taliban fighters carry their weapons before handing them over as part of a government peace and reconciliation process at a ceremony in Jalalabad on February 24, 2016 - Sputnik International
Taliban Confirms Leader's Death, Appoints Replacement
MOSCOW (Sputnik) Earlier on Wednesday, Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgency confirmed Mansour's death through its spokesman. On Tuesday, reports emerged of the Taliban convening its Shura council to possibly pick Mansour's successor within three days.

"The Taliban will, most likely, try to take revenge for the death of their leader, after all, some 60-70 percent of them supported Akhtar Mansour from the start. So to say that in the given situation the Taliban will run and start agreeing to talks is simply naive," Kabulov told RIA Novosti.

Mansour was elected at a previous Shura near the western city of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan region, in mid-2015 after Taliban eventually acknowledged his predecessor’s death in 2013. Mansour was killed in a US drone strike near the Afghan border in Balochistan on Saturday.

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