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NATO says air strike kills senior Taliban fighter

U.S. warplanes killed a senior Taliban commander in an air strike in the violence-racked southern Afghan province of Uruzgan on Tuesday, NATO said. The strike comes as British forces with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) began pulling out of the Musa Qala district in neighboring Helmand, scene of bloody battles with Taliban insurgents until local tribal leaders brokered a truce six weeks ago. Full Story