Pakistan

The Taliban killed 10 Frontier Corps troops and captured eight more in two separate attacks in Mohmand. The military killed 10 Taliban fighters in Mohmand and seven more in South Waziristan. Police detained 36 Afghans and 70 suspected extremists during a sweep in Peshawar.

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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