Pakistan

Karachi is crucial to the Taliban’s campaign, said spokesman Mullah Omar. The Taliban burned down four girls’ schools, a health clinic, and a factory in Swat. A leader of a peace committee survived an IED attack in South Waziristan. The Mohmand Taliban freed 37 members of the rival Shah Sabib group.

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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