Iraq

Security forces killed two senior al Qaeda leaders near Mosul, and detained eight smugglers on the Iraqi-Syrian west of Mosul, eight wanted men in Basrah, and a Baathist in Diyala. Two US soldiers died in “unrelated non-combat incidents.”

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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