Pakistan

Security forces killed 44 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Twenty-one people have been killed in fighting between the Lashkar-e-Islam and the Taliban in Khyber. Bajaur tribal elders vowed to support the government against the Taliban.

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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