Pakistan

Security forces killed 43 Taliban fighters in Arakzai, five in Swat, and four more in Dera Ismail Khan; 22 fighters surrendered in Bajaur. The Taliban offered a prisoner swap for 33 captive Frontier Corps troops and threatened local truckers that convoys transporting NATO goods would be attacked.

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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