Iraq

Seven police and eight civilians were killed in a suicide bombing in Baqubah. Fourteen Iraqis were wounded in a suicide car bombing in Mosul. US soldiers killed six Mahdi Army fighters as they planted IEDs in New Baghdad. Iraqi troops arrested five Mahdi Army fighters in Amarah; US troops detained an IED cell member in Baghdad. Coalition forces captured 14 al Qaeda operatives.

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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