President Karzai seeks to receive control of security responsibilities by 2014. Security forces killed and captured three Taliban leaders and an undisclosed number of fighters in Nangarhar, Kandahar, Zabul, Paktika, Kabul, and Kunduz. Combined forces air assaulted into a Taliban safe haven in Kunar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south and fired rockets at the conference in Kabul. An Afgan Army recruit killed two US civilian in the north.
