Afghanistan

Twelve prisoners escaped through a tunnel at a jail in Farah province; Taliban commanders are said to have been among them. A suicide bomber killed three policemen in Farah. The Taliban murdered a Red Crescent leader in Takhar province. Afghan and Coalition forces detained Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters in Logar and Khost, and detained two suicide bombers in Nimroz.

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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