Pakistan

Ali Bakht, Mullah Fazlullah’s deputy in Swat, was killed along with 13 Taliban fighters. Four police were injured after the Taliban attacked a police station in Peshawar. One soldier was killed after the Taliban took control of three checkpoints in Bajaur; Pakistani troops occupied the Loyesam region in Bajaur. Four Pakistanis were killed during clashes in Khyber between Lashkar-e-Islam and Ansar-ul-Islam.

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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