Taliban Says It Shot Down Crashed US C-130 In Afghanistan:
The Taliban claimed Friday to have shot down a US military transport plane in eastern Afghanistan in a crash that killed 11 people, as the battle for Kunduz raged after the emboldened militants briefly seized the city. Ref. Source 7u
Resurgent Taliban threaten to overrun another Afghan city:
Fighting flared in eastern Afghanistan Monday as Taliban insurgents threatened to storm another provincial capital, two weeks after their lightning capture of northern Kunduz city which marked their biggest military victory in 14 years. Ref. Source 6r
Mullah Mansour dead, new Taliban caretaker chief appointed -- Pakistani Media:
Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour has reportedly died and Taliban has appointed Moulavi Haibatullah Akhunzada as the new caretaker chief, Pakistani local Urdu TV "Channel 24" quoted its own sources from Afghanistan as saying on Friday night. Ref. Source 7s