Pakistan

Security forces detained 28 al Qaeda and Taliban facilitators as well as 116 Afghans during the security operation in Khyber. “There was no resistance at all from the Taliban side as they seem to have gone underground,” local residents said. The Taliban murdered a “US spy” in North Waziristan.

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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