The Afghan intelligence service stated that, according to their information, the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Omar, died in a PakistanI hospital in 2013, the New York Times reports.
Afghan intelligence officers have not said where they got this information from, gazeta.ru reports.
Reports about the death of the leader of the extremist Taliban movement in Afghanistan Mullah Mohammad Omar are reliable, Deputy Press Secretary of the White House Eric Schultz said at a briefing, TASS reports.
At the same time, the White House representative did not comment on "the particular circumstances of his death." He just noticed that now the US intelligence agencies are clarifying this information.
