Former UN envoy Kai Eide said he met Taliban leaders in Afghanistan and that Pakistan’s detention of Mullah Bahadar has scuttled peace talks. Coalition and Afghan forces captured a Taliban IED facilitator and a Haqqani network commander and an undisclosed number of fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Paktika, and Khost. An undisclosed number of Taliban fighters were killed in airstrikes in Badghis.
