Afghanistan

Two US soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan; Afghans claimed the Taliban shot the helicopter down. Coalition and Afghan forces detained a Taliban logistics officer and a fighter in Kandahar, and a facilitator for the Kabul Attack Network.

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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