Iraq

Muqtada al Sadr has extended the Mahdi Army cease-fire. Iraqi troops killed a Mahdi Army commander in Baghdad. US soldiers captured a Special Groups cell leader in the Rashid District of Baghdad. Coalition forces killed six al Qaeda operatives and detained six during raids in central and northern Iraq. Five Iraqis were killed and 10 were wounded in a suicide attack outside a mosque in Fallujah. One Iraqi was killed and five wounded in a car bomb explosion in Baghdad.

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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