Iraq

US troops captured a senior Special Groups leader at Baghdad International Airport. Coalition forces killed three terrorists and captured six in Diyala and detained four al Qaeda operatives near Baghdad and Mosul. A US soldier died after being wounded in an IED attack in Baghdad. Two Iraqis were killed and 30 were wounded in three bombings in Baghdad. Fourteen civilians were wounded in an IED attack near Tal Afar.

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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