Coalition claim top Taliban leader captured

US-LED coalition forces believe they may have captured top Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah.

There is a “good chance” that the one-legged militant, captured in a joint Afghan-coalition operation in Kandahar province on Wednesday, is Dadullah, said General Rehmatullah Raufi, head of the Afghan military’s southern region.

Dadullah, who lost a leg fighting for the Taliban during its rise to power in the mid-1990s, is one of the militia’s top commanders, responsible for operations in eastern and south-eastern Afghanistan. Neither the US-led coalition nor the Afghan government in Kabul said they could immediately confirm that Dadullah had been captured.