A US airstrike in South Waziristan killed 14 Taliban fighters. Twenty-one fighters were killed in a Taliban turf war in Arakzai. Security forces killed 17 Taliban fighters in Khyber.
The Taliban killed three people in a rocket attack in Peshawar and a tribal elder in Mohmand, and torched nine schools in Buner and five more in Shangla. One soldier was killed and 29 Taliban fighters were detained in Swat and Malakand.
