Iraq

A suicide bomber killed six people after ramming a car packed with explosives into a police checkpoint in Baghdad. Insurgents killed two policemen in Mosul. Iraqi forces detained three al Qaeda operatives, including a top financial official, in Mosul.

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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