Afghanistan

A suicide bomber killed 40 people, including 19 security and intelligence personnel, in an attack outside a mosque in Faryab. A former Taliban leader who defected to the government along with 11 fighters last year was gunned down in Faryab.

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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