Afghanistan

Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Logar, and Balkh. The Taliban killed a US soldier in the south. A suicide bomber killed only himself in an attack on a US base in Paktika.

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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