Afghanistan

A senior US official said Mullah Omar and the Taliban leadership are hiding in Pakistan. “They run the shura council, they run the strategic command and control out of the city of Quetta,” the official said. US forces detained three members an IED cell near the Pakistan border in the Bermel District of Paktika province.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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