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.
The boy was hanged after his father, a policeman, refused to cooperate with the Taliban.
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The Taliban facilitator has “direct ties to senior al Qaeda members and arranges escape routes for them to safe havens in Pakistan.” A senior Afghan official said that five “foreign fighters” were killed during the operation in Ghazni.
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Afghan officials said that foreign fighters were among the Haqqani Network fighters killed during yesterday’s assault on an encampment in Paktika province.
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Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and IMU leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Logar, and Baghlan. Five foreign fighters were among seven terrorists killed during fighting in Ghazni.
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Security forces killed 50 Haqqani Network fighters during a raid on a training camp in Paktika. Security forces also killed and captured several Taliban and IMU leaders and fighters, and one civilian, in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, and Takhar. The Taliban killed five civilians in an IED attack in Faryab.
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ISAF said that more than 50 Haqqani Network fighters were killed during a daylong battle in Paktika province.
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Two men who claimed to be British citizens were arrested in Herat for working with the Taliban. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Wardak, Laghman, Baghlan, and Balkh.
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A suicide bomber killed four Afghans in Herat. The Taliban killed four Afghan policemen in Kandahar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, Paktika, and Nangarhar.
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