Taliban admit covering up death of leader Mullah Omar for 2 years

August 31, 2015 22:02

The Taliban concealed the "depressing news" of the death of its former leader Mullah Omar for more than two years because the movement was in the final stages of its fight against US-led forces, a detailed biography of the group's new chief has revealed.

Until the news leaked last month, the death of the Taliban's founder on 23 April 2013 was kept a secret "limited to the very few colleagues who were informed of this incorrigible loss', according to the long statement published on the movement's website on Monday.

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