An airstrike blamed on US forces operating in Afghanistan left at least 12 civilians dead in the east of the country, officials said on Wednesday, in the second such incident this week.
Women and children were among the dead, Logar provincial council member Hasibullah Stanekzai told dpa. The airstrike was conducted "by foreign forces" in Bari village near provincial capital Pul-e-Alam, late Tuesday night, he said.
The US are the only foreign military force still carrying out airstrikes in Afghanistan.
The strike targeted two well-known Taliban commanders who at the time were hiding in a civilian house, Stanekzai said.
Both Mawlavi Ahmadullah, the Taliban's self-appointed governor for Khoshi district in Logar, and a deputy commander of Taliban forces in the region, Qari Naqibullah, were killed along with several other militants.
A spokesman for the provincial governor, Mohammad Salim Saleh, also spoke of "civilian casualties in a foreign forces airstrike," but provided no further details.
US military spokesman John Ross said: "We are still not clear on what happened there, we are looking into it."
It is the second airstrike this week against Taliban forces that also killed civilians.
On Monday, a strike by the country's own nascent airforce left 13 civilians dead and 7 other wounded in western Herat province.
The number of US and Afghan airstrikes against Taliban and Islamic State militants is rising fast.
With the Afghan forces stretched thin and demoralized, the military is often relying on airstrikes as the last resort to drive the insurgents back.
According to the UN, the number of civilian casualties from US and Afghan airstrikes in the first six months of 2017 increased by 43 per cent compared to the same period in 2016.
