Afghanistan

A suicide bomber killed a district governor in Jalalabad. Five ISAF soldiers were killed in an IED attack in Kandahar. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured scores of Taliban commanders and fighters in Wardak, Zabul, Khost, Paktia, Helmand, and Kandahar. Two suicide bombers in Farah died in a premature detonation.

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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