Afghanistan

Security forces killed an al Qaeda-linked insurgent leader in Nuristan. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the west. Twenty security guards in Uruzgan surrendered to the Taliban.

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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