Pakistan

The military claimed 150 Taliban fighters were killed in Shangla and 60 more were killed in Swat. The Taliban destroyed a headquarters of the Dir Levies and killed one Malakand Levies officer and captured three others. The military claimed 26 Taliban were killed and another 14 were wounded after troops repelled an assault in Mohmand, but the Taliban claimed 20 soldiers were killed and another six were taken prisoner.

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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