A key Taliban commander, Mullah Hamdullah, was killed in Afghan forces airstrike in Uruzgan province on Saturday morning, provincial Police Chief Gen. Mohammad Azim Hashimi said.
 
Hashimi the airstrike was conducted on the outskirts of Tarinkot city, the capital city of Uruzgan province on Saturday morning.
 
He said 22 other militants were also killed in the airstrike. 
 
The Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said in a statement that at least 10 militants were killed in Afghan forces airstrikes in Sayyad district in Sar-e-Pul province, in the north of Afghanistan.
 
Taliban has not commented on the airstrikes so far.