Pakistan

Forty Pakistani security personnel and 45 Taliban fighters have been killed during clashes in Dir; 80 Pakistani troops may have been captured. The US and Pakistan are rumored to be forming a combined counterterrorism team.

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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