Afghanistan

The Taliban executed the provincial director for culture and information for Kandahar. Security forces detained an IED maker and an undisclosed number of Taliban fighters during raids in the Nad Ali district in Helmand.

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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