Somalia says co-founder of militant group al Shabaab killed

US Launches Airstrike in Somalia, Says al-Shabaab Leader Killed - News From Antiwar.com

US Africa Command (AFRICOM) on Monday said that the US launched an airstrike in Somalia on October 1 and said the action killed a senior al-Shabaab leader. AFRICOM didn’t name the target in its press release, but the US-backed Mogadishu-based government said Abdullahi Nadir, a co-founder of al-Shabaab, was killed in an operation the same … Continue reading "US Launches Airstrike in Somalia, Says al-Shabaab Leader Killed"

Top Al-Shabaab leader killed in joint operation: Somalia gov't

The Somali government announced on Monday a top Al-Shabaab militant, who had a $3.0-million U.S. bounty on his head, had been killed in a joint air strike in southern Somalia. The drone strike on October 1, launched by the Somali army and international security partners, killed Abdullahi Yare near the…

US strike kills top al-Shabaab leader in Somalia as militants claim new attack

The U.S. military said it killed a leader of the Islamist militant al-Shabaab group with an air strike in Somalia over the weekend, while the insurgents claimed responsibility for a new attack.

Al-Shabaab leader killed in US airstrike: Pentagon

U.S. forces over the weekend conducted an airstrike in Somalia that killed a top leader of the al-Shabaab extremist group, the Pentagon said Monday.   In coordination with the Somali government, U.S. Africa Command (Africom) conducted the airstrike on Saturday, Oct. 1, near Jilib, roughly 370 kilometers southwest of Mogadishu.  Africom did not name the target of…

US wipes out al-Shabaab terror leader in Somalia strike

The strike, which happened near the southwestern city of Jilib, took out the unnamed leader of the group known as the “largest and most kinetically active al Qaeda network in the world.”

US airstrike killed an al-Shabaab leader in Somalia on Saturday

By Oren Liebermann, CNNA US airstrike in Somalia killed an al-Shabaab militant leader on Saturday in coordination with the Somali government, US Africa Command said in a statement.The US said the initial assessment of the strike was that an al-Shabaab militant leader had been killed and there were no civilian casualties.Although the statement did not identify the militant, the Somali Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism said on Twitter a…