The Taliban killed four ISAF soldiers in an IED attack in the south and three civilians in a mortar attack in Kunar. Security forces killed and captured scores of Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Khost, Paktia, Wardak, Logar, Baghlan, Balkh, and Faryab. Forty Taliban fighters reconciled with the government in Takhar.
