Iraq

Security forces detained a senior al Qaeda leader and two of his aides in Ramadi, and 35 more al Qaeda members in Anbar province. A brigadier in charge of a prison in Tikrit was arrested after al Qaeda staged a jailbreak.

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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