Afghanistan

The Taliban killed eight people in a suicide attack in Kabul and killed five more in a bombing in Paktia. A pair of suicide bombers killed two British and two Afghan soldiers in Helmand. Afghan and Coalition forces killed four members of a Taliban IED team in Kandahar and detained a Taliban commander in Kabul.

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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