Afghanistan

A suicide bomber killed five children in Kandahar while President Karzai’s adviser on tribal affairs was wounded in an IED attack in Jalalabad. Security forces killed more than 30 Taliban fighters and detained several more during operations in Nuristan, Kunar, Khost, Paktia, Kandahar, and Helmand.

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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