Pakistan

Security forces killed 16 Taliban fighters and four al Qaeda operatives during airstrikes in South Waziristan, and 13 Taliban fighters in Arakzai, and destroyed the bazaar in Jandola. A lashkar killed five Taliban fighters in Dir. Thirty-three people were killed during sectarian clashes in Kurram. Mullah Fazlullah’s family has been arrested.

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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