NATO says airstrike killed Taliban leader
A NATO airstrike destroyed a compound housing a Taliban leader believed responsible for a wave of violence across southern Afghanistan, killing the commander and at least 10 other suspected militants, the Western alliance said.
NATO said militants continued to cross into Afghanistan from neighboring Pakistan “in fairly substantial numbers.”
Col. Tom Collins, a NATO spokesman, said fighters from North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia have been captured in Afghanistan. He added that most Taliban fighters, however, are ethnic Pashtuns from southern Afghanistan.
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