Pakistan

The Taliban took credit for the suicide attack against a police checkpoint in Peshawar that killed 12 people. The military killed 15 Taliban fighters in Swat and Malakand, 12 in Arakzai, seven in South Waziristan, and two more in Mohmand.

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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