KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Latest on developments in Afghanistan (all times local):

An Afghan official says at least 13 civilians, including women and children, were killed in an overnight airstrike by the Afghan security forces that targeted the Taliban in western Herat province. Gelani Farhad, spokesman for the provincial governor, said on Tuesday that the airstrike in Shindand district also wounded seven other civilians. He says the target of Monday night’s strike was a Taliban base and a prison run by the insurgents. The prison was destroyed and 19 prisoners — both military and civilians escaped. Farhad also said that the civilians who were killed died in their homes just next to the Taliban base. According to the spokesman, the air strikes also killed 16 Taliban militants. The Taliban have not commented on the attack in Herat province and Mr Farhad's information could not be independently verified. Meanwhile, on Tuesday morning, a suicide bomber killed at least five people in a busy commercial area of central Kabul, not far from the US Embassy, Afghan officials said. Basir Mujahid, spokesman for the Kabul police chief, said the explosion was probably targeting a branch of the privately-owned Kabul Bank. Earlier media reports indicated that a blast occurred around 10 a.m. local time in the diplomatic quarter of Kabul, at a bank located close to the US embassy. Mohammad Salim Rasouli, chief of Kabul hospitals at the Health Ministry, confirmed that nine other people were injured in the attack, according to initial reports. No-one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, but the Taliban often target banks, especially at the end of the month when civil servants and military personnel queue up to receive their salaries, or ahead of major Muslim holidays.
At least 11 Afghan civilians are killed and 16 wounded when a NATO helicopter attacked a house where Taliban insurgents had taken shelter in Logar Province, east of Kabul.