From Iran’s PressTV: A senior Turkish commander and a soldier with the NATO forces in Afghanistan have died in car accident in the northern province of Faryab.

Burak Ozugergin, the spokesperson of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the crash that killed Colonel Faruk Sungur and his driver happened at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night as they were on their way from the northern city of Mazar-i Sharif to the capital, Kabul.