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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Afghan officials say top Taliban commander killed By ELENA BECATOROS,Associated Press - Friday, December 31 Send IM Story Print KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan and coalition troops killed a top Taliban commander in an overnight raid in northern Afghanistan, local officials said Friday, while NATO said two of its service members were killed in separate incidents. Once relatively peaceful, security in Afghanistan's northern provinces has deteriorated as the Taliban, squeezed by U.S. and coalition operations focusing on militant strongholds in the south, have expanded their reach to other parts of the country. NATO said a joint force killed an insurgent and detained several suspects in the operation targeting a high-level Taliban leader in the Chahar Dara district of Kunduz province. The coalition said it had not yet identified the slain militant, but said the operation targeted an insurgent believed to make roadside bombs and suicide vests, and to use anti-aircraft guns against NATO and Afghan forces. But district chief Abdul Wahid Omarkhel and the Kunduz governor's spokesman, Mabobullah Sayedi, said the overnight joint raid killed Maulvi Bahadar, who had been the Taliban's acting shadow governor for Kunduz for several months. They said another four suspects had been arrested. Bahadar assumed the post after his predecessor, Abdul Rahman, left for neighboring Pakistan, Omarkhel said. Omarkhel himself survived a recent assassination attempt when a powerful roadside bomb detonated as he passed by in a police vehicle on his way to his office. His predecessor had been killed several months earlier in a suicide attack in the neighboring province of Tahar. Firefights and roadside bombs against coalition troops are also frequent. Italian military authorities in Rome said an Italian soldier was killed while on guard duty at a base in Gulistan in the western province of Farah Friday. A roadside bomb killed another coalition service member in southern Afghanistan, NATO said, without providing further details. This has been by far the deadliest year of the nearly 10-year war for foreign forces, with 702 killed in 2010. The United States, in an end-of-year review of its strategy in Afghanistan, has cited advances in its push against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. Yet the Obama administration, in the five-page section of the review released publicly in mid-December, acknowledged that while Taliban momentum has been stopped in some areas and reversed in others, "gains remain fragile and reversible." An illustration of the difficulties coalition forces face in the south came Friday when insurgents threw hand grenades into two homes in the Zhari district of Kandahar in the Taliban's provincial heartland, killing a child and wounding six civilians, officials said. Zhari, where Taliban leader Mullah Omar's radical Islamic movement was born just outside Kandahar city, was part of the focus of the U.S. surge of 30,000 troops earlier this year. U.S. forces advanced on the district several months ago as part of a crucial strategy aimed at reducing violence in the nearby city by stemming the flow of fighters and weapons to the urban center. In September 2006, a Canadian-led force pushed the Taliban out of Zhari and nearby Panjwai in an operation that cost 28 coalition lives. Months later, the Taliban were back. Although much of the fighting against the Taliban in recent months has been concentrated in the southern provinces, militants have been expanding their reach, with aid groups citing a deteriorating security situation in other parts of the country, particularly the north and east. NATO said Friday that several insurgents and a child had been killed in fighting during a joint operation with Afghan forces targeting a Taliban logistics officer in a compound in Wardak province west of Kabul the previous day. The joint force came under fire Thursday from the compound and fired back, killing several insurgents, it said in a statement, without specifying how many. But it said the force found a wounded child while securing the compound, and despite evacuating it to a NATO hospital, the child died of its wounds. In the eastern province of Khost bordering Pakistan, NATO said its troops and Afghan forces detained several suspected insurgents Thursday, including a man who had been working with the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani network and believed to have coordinated a suicide car bomb attack against an Afghan school and to be responsible for smuggling roadside bomb materials. ___ Associated Press writers Amir Shah in Kabul and Mirwais Khan in Kandahar contributed to this report. 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