Pakistan

U.S. forces shelled Taliban positions inside Pakistan, in North and South Waziristan. The U.S. brigade commander describes the fighting with the Taliban on the border in Afghanistan’s Paktika and Khost provinces as “intense,” with “World War I type” combat.

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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