Afghanistan

An al Qaeda commander kidnapped 21 tribal leaders in Kunar. The Taliban killed a militia commander in Parwan and an ISAF soldier in the east. Police are searching for 15 female Chechen terrorists in Kunduz. Special operations forces detained a Taliban commander and a fighter in Jalalabad.

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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