Afghanistan

Police captured five Taliban fighters, including two suspected suicide bombers, in Kabul. A Taliban commander and two of his bodyguards were killed in a premature detonation in Marja. Coalition and Afghan forces captured a Taliban IED facilitator, a Haqqani Network heavy weapons facilitator, and an undisclosed number of fighters in Kandahar 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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