Pakistan

The military said 12 Taliban were killed and 40 wounded in strikes in Swat and Shangla. A peace jirga is forming in Swat. A tribal jirga in Bannu agency said it would stop Taliban attacks. A bombing on a railroad in Nowshera killed one person.

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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