Eight Taliban insurgents were killed in an air attack in Afghanistan's western Herat province yesterday. The Taliban rebels were in meeting inside a house in Tagab-e- Yari village of Aoba district when aircraft targeted their hideout killing eight rebels including their commander Mullah Ghousuding on the spot Taliban militants who have intensified their activities against Afghan and NATO-led forces have yet to make comment. Afghan and NATO-led troops during joint operations in the western Herat province also eliminated six more militants.