Pakistan

Police arrested TNSM chief Sufi Mohammed in Peshawar one day after he met with the group’s shura and a former member of parliament for ordering the beheading of a Polish engineer. The military killed 23 Taliban fighters during operations in Dir. Two soldiers and one Taliban commander were killed in Swat.

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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