Afghan officials claimed that security forces killed 22 Taliban fighters and captured 16 more. ISAF killed nine "militants" in airstrikes in Kunar. The Taliban killed three policemen in Farah and an ISAF soldier in the south. An Afghan special forces commander in Kunar defected to the Taliban.
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