Pakistan

A suicide bomber killed 22 border guards at the Torkham crossing in Khyber. A US airstrike killed eight Taliban fighters in South Waziristan. Four soldiers and nine Taliban fighters were killed in South Waziristan. Police killed seven Taliban fighters and detained four more in Buner. Security forces captured 31 Taliban fighters in Swat and Malakand. Police re-arrested Sufi Mohammed’s three sons in Peshawar.

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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