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NATO Secretary General Rasmussen said security should begin to be transitioned to Afghan forces by the end of 2010. The Taliban killed nine civilians in an IED attack in Kandahar, three civilians in a suicide attack in Zabul, and two ISAF soldiers in an IED attack in the south. Joint forces detained an undisclosed number of Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in Logar and Zabul.
A suicide bomber killed 40 Afghans at a wedding party in Kandahar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces detained a Haqqani Network facilitator and an undisclosed number of fighters in Khost.
The Taliban shot down a helicopter in Helmand, killing four US soldiers; killed a British soldier; and executed an Afghan child for "spying" in Helmand. Afghan and Coalition forces killed 19 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in Paktika and detained an IED commander and several Taliban fighters in Kandahar.
Afghan troops killed 23 Taliban fighters and detained seven more in Badghis, and killed 14 more in Kandahar. The Taliban killed two Australian soldiers in Uruzgan and a British soldier in Helmand. Sixteen girls suffered from poisoning at a school.
Afghan police killed three suicide bombers who attempted to storm a training compound in Kandahar. The Taliban killed 10 ISAF soldiers in southern and eastern Afghanistan and four civilians in Helmand.
The interior minister and the intelligence chief resigned after a Taliban attack on the national peace jirga. An al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander and several of his bodyguards were killed in Farah province. The Taliban killed six Afghans and two British soldiers in attacks in Kunduz, Kandahar, and Helmand; three ISAF soldiers died in a vehicle accident in the south. A suicide bomber killed only himself in Nangarhar.
The national jirga offered the Taliban a peace deal. The Taliban killed two British soldiers in Helmand and a policeman in Kandahar. Coalition and Afghan forces detained a Haqqani Network facilitator and several Taliban and Haqqani fighters during raids in Khost and Farah.
Afghan and Coalition forces killed a top Taliban commander and several of his bodyguards in Kandahar, and three fighters in Helmand, and detained a Taliban sub-commander and a fighter in Logar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the South.
Afghan security forces killed five Taliban fighters and detained nine more, including a commander, in Wardak, and killed five more fighters in Zabul. The Taliban killed eight civilians in Helmand and an ISAF soldier in the south.
An attempted Taliban attack on the national peace jirga was defeated by Afghan security forces; two suicide bombers were killed and one was captured. Coalition and Afghan forces captured the Taliban's shadow governor of Baghlan; one Taliban fighter was killed during the raid. The Taliban killed a British Royal Marine in Helmand.
Afghan commandos retook control of the Barg-e-Matal district in Nuristan from the Taliban. Coalition and Afghan forces captured "several" Haqqani network commanders and fighters and a Taliban sub-commander in Khost and Zabul, and killed "several" Taliban fighters in Farah. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in the south.
Security forces killed two Taliban commanders in Kandahar and three fighters in Badakhshan. A suicide bomber killed only himself in Ghazni. The Taliban killed a policeman in Khost and a British Royal Marine in Helmand.
The Taliban killed six policemen in Badakhshan, five civilians in Khost, and an ISAF soldier in the south, and torched five ISAF fuel tankers in Ghazni. The Taliban threatened to kill representatives of Ghazni who attend an upcoming peace jirga. The government freed a Taliban commander in Baghlan in exchange for five kidnapped police officers.
The Taliban have taken control of a district in Nuristan. US and Afghan forces killed the Taliban's shadow governor of Baghlan and 11 fighters. A suicide bomber killed only himself in a failed attack in Kabul. The US admitted the military made errors that led to the deaths of 23 civilians in Uruzgan in February 2010.
Mullah Fazlullah is among seven Taliban fighters thought to have been killed in a clash with border police in Nuristan. The Taliban killed a British Royal Marine and a policeman in attacks in Farah and in the south. Coalition and Afghan forces detained an undisclosed number of Taliban fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, and Khost.
Coalition and Afghan forces killed and detained an undisclosed number of Taliban fighters in Zabul and Helmand. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand and detonated a car bomb outside a Canadian base in Kandahar. The Red Cross has offered medical training to the Taliban.
Afghan and Coalition forces killed a "key al Qaeda leader and several other enemy fighters" during a clash in Paktia and detained an undisclosed number of Taliban fighters and facilitators in Logar, Kandahar, and Helmand. The Taliban kidnapped seven civilians in Khost and later killed five of them.
Afghan forces killed seven Taliban fighters in Ghazni and detained seven more in Kabul. Afghan and Coalition forces detained a Taliban commander and an undisclosed number of fighters in Kandahar, Kunduz, Logar, and Helmand. The Taliban killed five civilians in Farah and two ISAF soldiers in attacks in the south. The national peace jirga has been delayed again.
The Taliban killed a district police chief in Ghazni and a tribal leader in Kunar, and bombed a school in Ghazni. The Taliban's May 22 assault on Kandahar airfield forced the cancellation of a visit of top British ministers. Coalition forces detained a Taliban commander and an undisclosed number of fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, and Zabul.
The Taliban launched a coordinated assault on Kandahar Airfield; four foreigners have been wounded. The Taliban killed three ISAF troops in southern Afghanistan. Both the Afghan government and the Taliban denied involvement in talks in the Maldives.
