Afghanistan

A four-man Taliban suicide assault team was killed after breaking into a UN compound in Herat. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, Paktika, and Kunar.

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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