Iraq

Forty-one Iraqis were killed in bombings in Karbala. Insurgents killed two policemen south of Mosul. Iraqi special forces killed a Syrian gunman during a clash along the border with Syria. Security forces detained six al Qaeda fighters in Mosul and a Mahdi Army cell member in Baghdad.

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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