Iraq

Insurgents killed two Shia clerics and two other Iraqis in attacks in Baghdad. The government claimed that casualties in insurgent attacks have halved from July to August.

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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