Afghanistan

Two senior Taliban commanders, Mullah Khair Gul and his deputy Mullah Amin Gul, were captured in Paktika, and NATO forces are in pursuit of their fighters. The Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah claimed he has deployed 6,000 fighters to Afghanistan

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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