Afghanistan

The Taliban killed three children during a bombing that targeted the home of an ally of Hamid Karzai. Afghan forces killed 13 Taliban fighters in Ghazni and detained nine suspected suicide bombers in Kabul. An ISAF soldier was killed in an explosion at a base 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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