Afghanistan

Two Taliban fighters and three civilians were killed in bombings in Paktika and Zabul provinces. The Taliban killed two more civilians and wounded 25 more in a rocket attack in Ghazni province. Afghan and Coalition forces killed and captured an unspecified number of Taliban fighters during operations in Kabul, Wardak, Helmand and Khost provinces, and destroyed two heroin labs and an IED factory.

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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