Iraq

US forces captured a Hezbollah Brigades propaganda specialist and a Mahdi Army fighter in Baghdad. Two security contractors and eight civilians were killed in an ambush in Mosul. A senior police officer was killed in an IED attack in Kirkuk. The Baghdad Police College graduated 1,698 new police officers.

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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