Afghanistan

A suicide bomber killed nine civilians, including four children, in an attack at a market in Paktia. The Taliban killed three policemen in Uruzgan, and wounded the governor of Khost and six others. Afghan and coalition forces detained three Taliban commanders and an undisclosed number of fighters in raids in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, and 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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