Pakistan

A US airstrike in South Waziristan killed five Taliban fighters. The Taliban killed nine civilians in a bombing in Dera Ismail Khan. The Pakistani military claimed 35 Taliban fighters were killed and 13 more were detained in Bannu, 30 were killed in airstrikes in Baitullah Mehsud’s hometown of Makeen, and nine more were killed in Bajaur.

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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