Iraq

A suicide bomber killed four Awakening fighters and two policemen and wounded 18 Iraqis in northern Baghdad. One Awakening fighter was killed and three wounded in an al Qaeda attack in Baqubah. Iraqi soldiers captured a leader of al Qaeda’s Islamic State in Iraq near Kirkuk and an al Qaeda leader near Mosul. Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured a Special Groups leader in the Shula neighborhood 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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