Afghanistan

Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, Paktika, and Baghlan. The Afghan government called on the UN to remove the names of five Taliban leaders from the blacklist.

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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