TTP's Khorasani Killed In Afghanistan Bombing.

ISLAMABAD -- Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Monday confirmed that Omar Khalid Khorasani, one of its top commander, who was behind some of deadliest attacks in recent years, was killed in a bombing in Afghanistan.

Abdul Wali Mohmand, also known under the alias Omar Khalid Khorasani, was on the US State Department's wanted list and was offering a reward of up to $3 million for information on his whereabouts.

According to the TTP, Khorasani's vehicle was targeted by a roadside bomb on Sunday in the Afghan province of Paktika, on the border with Pakistan.

At least two other commanders were also killed in the bombing which came exactly a week after a US drone strike in Kabul had killed Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri. Khorasani is thought to have been close to Al Qaeda's founding leader Osama bin Laden and al-Zawahiri, but it wasn't immediately known if there...