Afghanistan

Richard Holbrooke denied peace talks with the Taliban are underway. Russian counter-narcotics police participated in a raid on labs in Nangarhar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Zabul, Paktia, and Paktika. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south.

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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