Pakistan

Security forces detained a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who served as a Taliban leader in Bannu. The military claimed 80 percent of Kurram has been cleared of the Taliban. The Taliban destroyed three schools in Peshawar and Bajaur.

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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