NATO Airstrike Kills Haqqani Militant Involved in Afghan Hotel Attack
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}June 29: Western-style Inter-Continental hotel is on fire during an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A NATO airstrike has killed a militant with the Al Qaeda-affiliated Haqqani network who is suspected of having aided the gunmen who attacked a hotel in Kabul earlier this week.
The U.S.-led coalition said Thursday that Ismail Jan and several Haqqani fighters were killed Wednesday in a precision airstrike in Gardez, the provincial capital of Paktia province.
The coalition says the Haqqani network, in conjunction with Taliban operatives, conducted the late-night attack on the Inter-Continental hotel that killed at least 11 civilians. Nine suicide attackers also died in the siege.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Separately, authorities say six civilians and two NATO service members have died in roadside bomb attacks Thursday in southern Afghanistan.