Afghanistan

A senior Taliban commander said Iran is supplying EFPs to the terror group. US troops killed one Taliban fighter and wounded five during an attack on an outpost in the Ali Shang district in Laghman province. Two Afghans were killed and seven were wounded in an IED attack Herat province. The Afghan government handed over the 11-year-old son of al Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui to Pakistani diplomats.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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