Pakistan

The military claimed more than 70 Taliban fighters were killed during an operation to clear the Charbagh region in Swat. One soldier was killed and four were wounded in an IED attack on a convoy in South Waziristan. A former leader of the radical Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan was gunned down in Jangh.

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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