Afghanistan

A suicide bomber killed four policemen and one child in an attack on a drug eradication unit patrolling in Tarin Kot in Uruzgan province. Afghan and Coalition forces killed six Taliban fighters and detained one in Kandahar, killed four Haqqani Network operatives and detained three in Khost, and killed three more Taliban fighters in Wardak.

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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