Afghanistan

Ten Taliban fighters behind the acid attacks on schoolgirls in Kandahar have been arrested; they said senior Taliban leaders based in Pakistan paid them to conduct the attacks. US forces killed six HIG fighters and detained 12 more in Kapisa province; one Haqqani Network fighter was killed and five more were captured in Paktika province. A British soldier was killed in Helmand province.

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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