Afghanistan

A suicide car bomber killed three policemen and two civilians in an attack at a checkpoint outside of Kandahar city. Afghan and Coalition forces killed six Taliban fighters in Helmand province and detained five more in Zabul province. Spain will not send additional troops to Afghanistan.

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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