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Somalia: U.S. Airstrike Targets Al-Shabaab Militants Near Kismayo
MOGADISHU, Somalia, May 28, 2025 - The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, carried out an airstrike targeting Al-Shabaab militants approximately 40 kilometers northwest of the southern port city of Kismayo, officials said Wednesday.
The anti-terrorist offensives of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's government between 2022 and 2023 seemed, at last, once and for all, to push al-Shabaab into the abyss, the lethal al-Qaeda franchise in the Horn of Africa, where it operates since 2006. This group, after being expelled from Mogadishu in 2011, spread in several regions of the country, where it opened multiple fronts creating sanctuaries from which it generated attacks on bases, am…
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U.S. Airstrike Targets Al-Shabab militants near KIsmayo
While in collaboration with the Somali Federal Gov’t, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) on Tuesday carried out an airstrike on an area that lies 40 miles from Kismayo which targeted Al-Shabab fighters. The airstrike is part of joint efforts which area aimed to eradicate the militant group of Al-shabab that are planning to carry out attacks which pose a threat to the Somali populace, the Somali Armed Forces and friends in the world. The Somali Federa…
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