More than 60 suspected insurgents, including three regional commanders, were killed by airstrikes on two Taliban compounds in Afghanistan today.

Taliban leader Mullah Omar said the killing of its top field commander in Afghanistan “won’t create problems” for the hard-line militia, a spokesman said today.

THE Taliban’s most prominent military commander, a one-legged fighter who orchestrated an ethnic massacre and a rash of beheadings, was killed in a US-led military operation in southern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday.

Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban’s most prominent military commander, was killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan with Afghan and Nato troops, officials said today.

A top Taliban commander said al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was behind the February attack outside a US base in Afghanistan during US Vice President Dick Cheney’s visit, according to an interview broadcast today on Al-Jazeera.

Pakistan has arrested former Taliban defence minister Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, regarded as a top figure in the Afghan insurgency, a Pakistani intelligence official said.

US-LED coalition forces believe they may have captured top Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah.

US-led coalition forces captured a militant fighter with only one leg in a battle this week in southern Afghanistan, and it was possible the militant could be top Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah, an Afghan general said today.

ONE hundred militants have enlisted to become suicide bombers in Afghanistan since the appearance of “blasphemous” cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, a top Taliban commander has said.

TALIBAN fighters ambushed a truck full of government soldiers in the southern province of Zabul, killing several, the provincial governor and a Taliban spokesman said yesterday.