Taliban leader killed in airstrike in Afghanistan's Kunduz

Taliban leader Muhibullah was killed on Sunday in Afghanistan's Kunduz city.

Muhibullah was a citizen of Pakistan and was killed in an airstrike.

This comes just a couple of days after a US aistrike killed a Taliban splinter-group commander and several other fighters in the western Afghan province of Herat, news agency AFP reported quoting Afghan and military sources.

The commander, named as Mullah Nangyalay, was killed in Shindand district, close to the border with Iran, said Herat provincial governor's spokesman Jailani Farhad.
Nangyalay split from the main branch of the Taliban after the 2013 death of founder Mullah Omar and joined a smaller breakaway faction led by a commander known as Mullah Rasool.

A senior provincial police source said the airstrike was carried out by a US drone.

A spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan confirmed they had launched "a defensive airstrike in support of Afghan forces".

(With inputs from AFP)