President Karzai announced that Afghan forces will take control of the provinces of Kabul, Panjshir, and Bamyan, and the cities of Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif, Mehterlam, and Lashkar Gah. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban, Haqqani Network, and IMU commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Khost, Balkh, and Baghlan. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the east and wounded nine people in two suicide attacks in Uruzgan and Zabul.
