ANA CABRERA, CNN ANCHOR: We're following breaking news out of Afghanistan this morning. The Taliban wasting no time appointing a new leader and this comes just days after we learned the Taliban chief we learned was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh live in Beirut this morning with the breaking details -- Nick.</s>NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Ana, the first real official statement from the Taliban since the death of Mullah Mansour, now the second of three leaders appointed in just about a year now, this statement declaring three days the mourning, confirming the death of Mullah Mansour, and also appointing his successor. A little known man, formerly one of Mansour's deputies, called Haibatullah Akhundzada, thought to be more clerical, as in more involved in the sort of adjudication of the Sharia law the Taliban espoused than someone who's necessarily involved in the battlefield, a less controversial figure. They certainly didn't appoint a man known at al Qaeda the main facilitator and current battlefield deputy in the Taliban at the moment. But at the same time, too, any notion that suddenly this man's appointment may find a moment in peace in Afghanistan blown away by ten people killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul. Those, in fact, court workers on their way to work. So, Taliban moving very quickly here, still at this stage unclear what this will herald in the fight in Afghanistan.</s>ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: OK, Nick, thanks so much for the reporting. We'll check back. All right. Back here, Bill Cosby ordered to stand trial on sexual assault charges. What are the challenges for the defense? What are they for the prosecution? We have both sides, next.
Afghan Taliban Names New Leader