Afghanistan

Security forces killed an al Qaeda facilitator in Wardak and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Kandahar and Khost. US troops killed two Afghan policemen during a standoff at a checkpoint in Ghazni.

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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