Iraq

Two US soldiers were killed in separate incidents in Kirkuk and Diyala provinces. Security forces detained 19 insurgents in Karbala, an al Qaeda leader behind the 2006 bombing at the Samarra mosque, and a gunman in Al Kut.

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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