Afghanistan

Police killed five suicide bombers before they could strike in Paktika, and captured a Taliban commander and four fighters in Balkh. The Taliban killed six civilians in an IED attack in Kandahar and an ISAF soldier in a rocket attack in Bagram.

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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