Pakistan

A suicide bomber killed four Pakistanis in an attack in Peshawar. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Arakzai and five more in Swat. A Taliban deputy confessed to executing a Polish engineer earlier this year.

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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