Pakistan

Qari Saifullah Akhtar and Qari Zafar have been identified as main suspects in the Islamabad Marriott bombing. A suicide bombing in Quetta killed one child and wounded 19. Twenty-five Taliban and seven soldiers were killed in fighting in Bajaur and Charsadda. Six Taliban were killed in an operation in Darra Adam Khel. The Taliban executed three men in North Waziristan. A tribe in Khyber ordered extremists to leave their tribal area.

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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