A clash in Helmand province left one police officer and four Taliban dead. A Coalition airstrike in Zabul killed three Taliban while they traveled on motorcycles. A woman and a child from a nomadic tribe who had pitched their tents nearby were injured in the strike. Iranian security forces shot and killed 13 Afghan refugees on the Afghan side of the two countries’ border. Afghan officials strongly protested the killings and filed a diplomatic protest with the Iranian consulate.
