Pakistan

Nine Taliban fighters and two soldiers have been killed during fighting in South Waziristan; the military said Makeen and Sararogha are now surrounded while troops have cleared half of Kanigoram. The Taliban killed two people in a mortar attack in Khyber.

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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