Afghanistan

Security forces killed 21 Taliban fighters in operations and targeted two al Qaeda leaders in Kunar. The Taliban killed four policemen in Baghlan and an ISAF soldier in the south. Two ISAF soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in the east; another helicopter crashed in the east, but no casualties were reported.

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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