Pakistan

Thirteen al Qaeda and Taliban operatives were killed in an airstrike in South Waziristan. More than 100 Taliban attacked a police post in on the outskirts of Peshawar and burned the station down. Four Taliban fighters were captured in Swat while 10 suspects were released.

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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