Pakistan

A Taliban suicide bomber killed 41 civilians and soldiers in an attack on a convoy in Shangla. Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters in Bajaur and five more in South Waziristan, and detained 28 suspects in Islamabad and Rawalpindi and five Harkat-ul Mujahideen fighters in Dera Ismail Khan. The Taliban bombed a school in Hangu.

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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