Sun, May 22: Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour was killed in a US drone strike yesterday in south western Pakistan. General Joseph Votel was in Syria today make his own assessment of what’s been a slow campaign to push Islamic State militants out of the country. Mike Le Couteur reports.
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