Afghanistan

A policeman shot and killed eight of his peers in Lashkar Gah in Helmand province. Afghan and Coalition forces detained three Taliban fighters in the Achin district in Nangarhar province. The US will phase out the poppy eradication program.

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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