Pakistan

Sufi Mohammed, the instigator of the Taliban takeover of the Swat Valley from 2007-2009, is to be prosecuted for crimes almost a decade old. The Taliban executed four criminals in Hangu, killed three soldiers in North Waziristan, and killed one person in a bombing outside a school in Peshawar.

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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