Pakistan

Two Taliban fighters and one security official were killed after the Taliban attacked a checkpoint in North Waziristan. Lashkar-e-Islami executed four men accused of kidnapping in Khyber. Police are questioning Sufi Mohammed and his two sons in Peshawar. Security forces detained 22 Taliban fighters in Swat and Bajaur and five more in Sargodha.

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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