Pakistan

The Taliban kidnapped an Iranian diplomat in a suburb of Peshawar. The government said the Mohmand tribes “will be targeted by helicopters and jet bombers” if they did not turn on the Taliban. Pakistani troops killed two Taliban fighters in Swat.

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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