A key Taliban local group commander, Mullah Din Mohammad alongside his comrades were killed in an air bombardments in western Farah province of Afghanistan.
According to the Ministry of Defense (MoD), Mullah Din Mohammad was killed in an airstrike conducted in Posht Rod district of Farah province.
The source further added that a total of four Taliban-linked fighters including Mullah Din Mohammad and his three comrades were killed in the air shelling.
Farah is among the relatively volatile provinces in West of Afghanistan where the anti-government armed terrorist groups are active in some of its remote districts.
Hundreds of Taliban combatants launched a coordinated attack on Farah city the provincial capital of Farah in the early hours of Tuesday morning, The Afghan national defense and security forces supported by US-Special Forces responded to the attack by launching air and ground operations that lasted until early hours of Wednesday morning.
The Afghan officials on Wednesday confirmed that the city has been cleared of the Taliban combatants although they did not rule out the presence of the Taliban remnants in some parts of the city as well its outskirts.
