Coalition aircraft dropped three bombs on an insurgent compound in the troubled southern province of Uruzgan soon after 1:00 am, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.
"The aircraft engaged a known mid-level Taliban commander... with three 500 pound bombs, killing him and 10 to 15 additional Taliban militants who had previously conducted ambush attacks on the Afghan National Army and ISAF," it said.
The 31,000-strong ISAF took command of military operations in Afghanistan earlier this month from the coalition that toppled the Taliban in late 2001.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2006