NATO Bags Another Taliban Commander; Attacks Continue

As the AP points out, despite a NATO airstrike killing a Taliban commander, the pace of the war continues to pick up.

A NATO airstrike killed a Taliban commander responsible for a suicide attack on a U.S. aid program in northern Afghanistan, police said, while a raid killed another insurgent who smuggled in foreign fighters through Iran, officials said Friday.

International troops working with Afghan forces say they have killed or captured dozens of senior insurgent figures since April as they aggressively step up operations against the Taliban leadership. However, those successes haven't slowed the pace of militant attacks, which continue daily.

By: Brant