Badakhshan Province: In Drayam District, battles between Mujahideen and government forces resulted in at least ten people killed.

Ghor Province: National Directorate of Security (NDS) say they’ve arrested the man behind the killings of a German tourist, and 15 Afghans.  NDS agents also accuse the man of laundering money for Mujahideen.

Helmand Province: In Lashkargah City, a Kamikaze car bomber killed himself, and wounded three border patrol cops.

Kabul Province: In Kabul City, another explosion killed four Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel, wounded 12 ANA troops and wounded six civilians.  It was a remote detonated bomb.  Police also report an artillery round impacted the 14th street of Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan sector of the city, however there are conflicting reports of casualties.  The police say there are no casualties, but an army general says there are.  The Afghan Council of Ministers (led by Obama sucker Abdullah Abdullah) issued an arrest order for the entire staff of The Afghanistan Express!  Abdullah Abdullah (a politician supported by the Obama regime) declared all the employees of the newspaper to be religious blasphemers for publishing an article considered to be anti-religion (in other words, they spoke the truth)!  At Kabul University, several students were arrested for trying to join Islamic State.

Kandahar Province: In Maiwand District, battles between Mujahideen and government personnel left at least 37 people killed.

Kunduz Province: In Imam Sahib District, Mujahideen attacked government FOBs (Forward Operating Bases), at least 12 people killed or wounded. Local government officials say there are Chechens and Uzbeks fighting alongside the Mujahideen.   Police say they prevented a family of 12 (a woman and 11 children) from committing mass suicide.  Despite the claims by the United States that Afghan’s lives would be made better by the occupation, extreme poverty and addiction to opium is skyrocketing.

Iran executed three Afghans for smuggling opium and the U.S. drug meth into Iran. Iranian border police say they’ve also shot and killed two Afghans in the process of smuggling drugs into Iran.

The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has revealed that opium growing has hit another record harvest, despite U.S. taxpayers funding $7-billion USD in anti-drugs ops: “The recent record-high level of poppy cultivation calls into question the long-term effectiveness and sustainability of those prior efforts.”-John Sopko, letter to Secretary of failed State John Kerry and Defense-less Secretary Chuck Hagel

Nangarhar Province: In Khogyani District, five people in a car were shot dead, two wounded.  Police blame Mujahideen.   However, the attack was Islamic State style, meaning the attackers drove alongside the car and blasted away with AK-47s.

The U.S. SIGAR also revealed that U.S. taxpayers have spent $3.6-million buying TV trucks for Afghanistan’s fledgling television industry: “Not only were the trucks delivered years late, but apparently the unit cost increased substantially…..something is seriously wrong with the way this contract was managed.”-John Sopko, letter to U.S. Secretary of failed State John Kerry

For some odd reason the Obama regime is transferring a former Soviet soldier, who joined the Mujahideen during the Soviet occupation, to the United States for criminal trial.  The former Soviet turned Afghan is accused of attacking U.S. forces in 2009.  Why is it just this Afghan who is being sent to United States for trial?   Even the U.S. Congress was not told why!

NATO special partner Australia banned the public and news media from attending further court debate about the death of three Diggers.  Before the ban was imposed it was revealed that Royal Australian Defence Forces (ADF) officials failed to warn newly deployed Diggers of an increase in attacks by Afghan National Army troops (Green on Blue attacks).  In August 2012, a platoon of Diggers were taking a break from patrol when an ANA soldier blasted away at them with his U.S. issued M16 assault rifle.   Three Australian troopers were killed, two wounded.   The official ADF investigation actually blamed two Diggers (a sergeant and a captain) for ‘allowing’ the attack to happen, however, court testimony blasted the official investigation saying it was unfair.   That testimony came the day the court decided to impose a news media blackout on further testimonies.

NATO member Czech Republic announced it will keep combat troops in-country until the end of 2016, at least.

NATO member Denmark announced a new three year occupation of Afghanistan plan.  They claim during that time they will shift from military personnel to government/contracted civilian personnel: “I am very pleased that we in the group of political parties behind the Afghanistan effort have reached agreement on a strategy that will ensure that we, as a solidary member of NATO, build on the results already achieved by the Danish and allied soldiers.”-Nicolai Wammen, Danish defense minister