Thea Taliban killed 41 people in attacks on polling stations in Nangarhar, Kunar, and Baghlan, but failed to block the parliamentary election; 92 percent of the polling stations remained open. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in Kunduz, an al Qaeda-linked district commander in Kunar, and a Haqqani Network fighter in Khost, and captured a military commissioner in Helmand.
