Iraq

Security forces detained an al Qaeda assassination cell leader and a cell member in Baghdad and two insurgents in Kirkuk, and seized two suicide vests in Ramadi. Insurgents killed a policeman in Mosul. The US will change the name of the Iraqi mission to Operation New Dawn starting September.

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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