Afghan Taliban responds over media reports of founding leader Mullah Umer residence near US Military Base in Afghanistan

Afghan Taliban responds over media reports of founding leader Mullah Umer residence near US Military Base in Afghanistan

KABUL - Afghan Taliban responds over media reports regarding founding leader Mullah Umer presence near US Military Base in Afghanistan.

Taliban in a statement confirms the report which says their founding leader Mullah Mohammad Omar lived in Afghanistan before he died.

The group says in a tweet that Mullah Omar "had never left Afghanistan".

The Afghan government has rejected the report as baseless.