The Taliban hanged the 8-year-old son of a policeman in Helmand. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Zabul, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, and Balkh. Five “foreign fighters” were killed in Ghazni.
Security forces killed 11 Taliban fighters in Kurram and arrested a Taliban intelligence official and his aide in Islamabad. A suicide bomber killed one soldier in an attack on a security checkpoint in South Waziristan.
Security forces killed three terrorists during an operation in the Russian Republic of Dagestan. One of those killed was Mekhtibek Bashirov, the leader of a group in the city of Derbent.
Security forces arrested 16 members of an al Qaeda assassination cell, including the terror group’s leader, in Baghdad. Insurgents killed a policeman in Baghdad.
A suicide bomber killed nine Yemeni soldiers and wounded 21 more in an attack on a military convoy in Aden. The convoy was traveling to fight al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Zinjibar.
Shabaab beheaded two shepherds and displayed their corpses in Afgoye. The government of Puntland and Shabaab forces under Sheikh Atom agreed to a cease-fire.
The Taliban intelligence official is identified by the initials QZR, but it is unclear if he is Qari Zia Rahman.
The boy was hanged after his father, a policeman, refused to cooperate with the Taliban.
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