NATO airstrike kills Taliban commander in north

NATO airstrike kills Taliban commander in north

KABUL, Afghanistan — An official says a NATO airstrike killed a Taliban commander responsible for a suicide attack on a U.S. aid program in northern Afghanistan.

The police chief of Kunduz province in the north said Friday that a precision airstrike killed a local Taliban commander who uses the alias Qari Latif.

Police chief Abdul Razaq Yaqoubi says Latif died along with 12 other insurgents when a NATO bomb targeted them while they met in a field under a tree Thursday outside the provincial capital.

NATO said Friday it was still investigating the outcome of the strike. It said Latif had boasted of being behind a suicide car bomb on a USAID station in Kunduz city on July 2 that killed two civilians and wounded seven others.