Police killed 13 Taliban fighters during operations in Nangarhar, Laghman, Logar and Helmand. The Taliban killed an Afghan soldier in an IED attack. The Interior Minister disputed a British report that the Taliban would retake areas of Afghanistan after ISAF forces withdraw.
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The Taliban killed three ISAF soldiers in a suicide attack that targeted a convoy in Kabul and killed two civilians in an IED attack in Uruzgan. Security forces captured five Taliban fighters as they were manufacturing suicide vests in Baghlan.
The attack was likely executed by the Kabul Attack Network, the jihadist alliance that pools its resources to attack Coalition and Afghan targets in and around the capital.
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Security forces killed seven Taliban fighters during operations in Laghman, Wardak, Kandahar, and Farah provinces. The Taliban killed a policeman in an IED attack in Kunar.
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The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south and kidnapped three construction workers in Farah. Security forces captured three would-be suicide bombers in Laghman and defused 65 bombs in Kandahar.
Afghan forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in clashes throughout the country and captured six more who were involved in attacking supply convoys in Kandahar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in an attack in the east.
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Qari Hussain is thought to have been been killed in a US drone strike in January 2012. He served as the Taliban’s “teacher of suicide bombers” and was involved in the Times Square plot and the suicide attack on the CIA in Afghanistan.
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The Afghan Army cut a peace deal with the Taliban in the Sangin district in Helmand, and turned over several checkpoints to the jihadists. Three Taliban suicide bombers were killed in an assault on a NATO supply base at the Torkham crossing in Nangarhar.
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Six ISAF soldiers were killed in an aircraft crash in Zabul; the Taliban claimed they shot down a helicopter. The Taliban killed two Afghan Border Police officers in an IED attack in Kandahar. Security forces killed eight Taliban fighters, including Pakistanis, in Ghazni.
Six ISAF soldiers were killed in a crash in Zabul province. The Taliban were quick to claim credit for downing the aircraft.
The Taliban killed four soldiers and wounded six more in IED attacks in Khost, Wardak, and Kapisa. The Taliban also killed four children in a bombing in Uruzgan. Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters during an operation Ghazni.
Both detainees were approved for transfer “subject to appropriate security measures” by President Obama’s Guantanamo Review Task Force. Previously, Joint Task Force Guantanamo deemed both detainees “high” risks to the US and its allies and recommended that they be retained in US custody.