Pakistan

A suicide bomber killed three people, including a journalist, in an attack at the Peshawar Press Club. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and four more in South Waziristan, and detained eight in Swat. The foreign minister said US airstrikes in Baluchistan would not be permitted.

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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