Afghan and ISAF forces retook Musa Qala after the Taliban abandoned the town; fighting is ongoing at the outskirts. An airstrike killed a Taliban weapons facilitator in Musa Qala. The Taliban hanged a 12-year-old boy for “spying” in Sangin in Helmand province. Canadian and Afghan forces killed 31 Taliban and captured eight in Kandahar’s Panjwai district. Four were killed in an Afghan Army helicopter crash.