A Taliban suicide bomber killed 10 people in an attack on a hotel in Uruzgan. The Taliban also killed three Afghans in Helmand. President Obama warned Afghan president Hamid Karzai that the US is prepared to withdraw all troops at the end of 2014 if the Bilateral Security Agreement is not signed.
The Taliban killed 20 Afghan soldiers and captured eight more after overrunning a military outpost in Kunar province. The attack may have been facilitated by Afghan soldiers sympathetic to the Taliban. The government denied that the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan executed 23 Pakistani Frontier Corps troops inside Afghanistan.
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So much for the idea that the US withdrawal from Kunar will cause the insurgency to collapse.
The Taliban again denied that Agha Jan Mutasim represents the group, and said his actions are “detrimental” to both the Taliban and “the goals of the sacred Jihad.”
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A Taliban suicide assault team killed two policemen in an attack on a police headquarters in Kabul province. Five civilians and a Taliban fighter were killed in clashes in Helmand. The US warned its citizens not to travel to Afghanistan.
The Taliban have launched two other suicide attacks in Kabul province over the past three days.
A suicide bomber killed two civilians at a cultural center in Kabul. Yesterday, a suicide bomber targeted presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah. Pakistan claimed that the 23 Frontier Corps personnel who were executed by the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan were killed inside Afghanistan.
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The military said it killed 45 Taliban fighters in Nangarhar and nine more fighters in Kunar. A suicide bomber killed six people in Kunduz. The Taliban claimed it shot down a US helicopter in Kandahar.
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“You [the US] martyred Osama and yet you are still here,” HPC spokesman Maulavi Shazada Shahid said as he lashed out against the US.
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Two men wearing Afghan military uniforms killed two ISAF soldiers in Kapisa. Security forces killed 19 Taliban fighters in Nangarhar. The Taliban have established training camps in southern Helmand. The US added the owner of a hawala to its list of terrorist kingpins for supporting the Taliban.
In the reported first insider attack since Oct. 26, two Coalition troops were killed by two men in Afghan military uniforms, and several civilians were injured by crossfire.
Dishu and Khanishan districts in Helmand province were turned over to Afghan control in early 2013. One year later, the Taliban have opened camps in the districts.
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US Forces-Afghanistan condemned the Afghan government’s order to free 65 “dangerous individuals” from custody. “The primary weapon of choice for these individuals is the improvised explosive device,” the statement said. The Taliban killed four Afghan soldiers in IED attacks.