7 Taliban leaders killed in airstrike in Afghanistan

Seven local Taliban leaders were killed and a shadowy district governor detained following an air raid operation in southern Afghan province of Helmand overnight, a provincial police spokesman said Sunday. “Based on intelligence, a warplane with the NATO-led coalition forces carried out an airstrike against a Taliban hideout in Trikh Nawar area of Naway-i- Barakzai district in the wee hours Sunday, killing seven insurgents’ leaders including Mullah Hazrat and Mullah Yasin,” police spokesman Farid Ahmad Farhang told Chinese news agency (Xinhua). He said a joint Afghan and coalition forces unit launched a post-strike assessment operation, detaining the Taliban shadowy governor for the district named Mullah Ahmad Mubarak, who got injured in the attack in the province 555 km south of Afghan capital Kabul.