Pakistan

The Taliban set a village on fire in Arakzai to punish villagers for not backing them against the military. The military killed seven Taliban fighters in Bajaur and five more in South Waziristan. The five US jihadis detained last month claimed they intended to fight in Afghanistan, not Pakistan.

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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