Iraq

Security forces detained al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq’s finance minister along with five other fighters in Mosul. Iraqi troops killed a ‘gunman’ in Baghdad, and detained five wanted men in Al Kut, four more in Thi Qhar, and eight al Qaeda operatives in Mosul.

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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