the taliban leader has rejected the leadership of mansour, who was made the successor to mullah umar when it was announced that he had been dead for two years. what rasul is saying is there were suspicious circumstances rounding the death of mullah umar and he thinks mansour is lying about the circumstances of that death, even accusing him of murdering mullah umar, and he accuses mullah aktar of being too close to pakistan's intelligence service, sort of making himself out to be more patriotic and not cooperating with a foreign intelligence service. so fighting has broken out in zabul province. some reports say that 100 people have been killed in this infighting, the factional fighting between the taliban factions. there have even been reports that aktar mansoul may have been wounded or even killed just this week in queta in a shootout among different taliban factions. the taliban is denying this so we have to see what is happening. what is clear is there are problems within the taliban and a great deal of factional in-fighting. and isis is taking advantage of this. just like in syri