Afghanistan

A suicide attack on a US military convoy outside the US embassy in Kabul killed four civilians and wounded 17 more. Coalition and Afghan forces killed seven Taliban fighters in Helmand province. Two British Royal Marines and an Australian soldier were killed in southern Afghanistan. A French aid worker kidnapped last month pleaded for his release on a videotape.

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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