Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour (file photo)
These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this edition of Press TV's Top 5:
- The US military says it has targeted Taliban leader Mullah Mansour in an airstrike authorized by President Barack Obama. A US official says the militant leader is likely killed.
- A top American military commander secretly enters Syria without permission from Damascus, meeting US-backed militants fighting against the Syrian government.
- The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council blames the US for the slow implementation of the nuclear deal between Tehran and the P5+1 group.
- Yemen’s Ansarullah movement says it has attended the Kuwait peace talks to end the war on the country, NOT to give in to bullying, as the Saudi-backed delegation repeats its conditions.
- Demonstrators take to the streets of the French capital Paris in protest against agricultural giant Monsanto and the genetically-modified food it produces.
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