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attacked the United States Somalia About 30 al-Shabaab fighters were killed, US Africa Command said in a statement on Saturday.
US forces on Friday “conducted a combined self-defense strike” in support of Somali National Army forces who were “engaged in heavy fighting following a complex, extended, intense attack by more than a hundred al-Shabaab fighters,” the statement said. with terrorist groups linked to Al Qaeda.
A US defense official said there were no US troops on the ground at the time of the airstrike.
The strike occurred near Galkad, about 260 kilometers northeast of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. US Africa Command assessed that no civilians were injured or killed due to the remote location.
The United States has continued to provide aid to the Somali government ever since President Joe Biden The Pentagon approved a request To redeploy US troops in the region in May 2022 in an effort to tackle the terrorist group. Authorization to send less than 500 troops was contrary to earlier policy. President Donald Trumpits decision To withdraw all US troops from the country in 2020.
“Somalia is at the center of stability and security in all of East Africa. US Africa Command forces will continue to train, advise and equip partner forces to help give them the tools they need to defeat al-Shabaab, the world’s largest and deadliest al-Qaeda network,” the US military said in a statement on Saturday.
In recent months, US forces have carried out numerous strikes in the region that have killed dozens of al-Shabab.
The US attack in October Killed two al-Shabaab members About 218 km north-northwest of Mogadishu. The next November strike 17 Al-Shabaab fighters killed About 285 km northeast of Mogadishu. And in late December, another Six al-Shabaab militants were killed in the US strike near the town of Cadel, which is about 150 miles northeast of the capital.
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