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The US carried out an attack in Somalia that killed about 30 al-Shabaab fighters, US Africa Command said in a statement on Saturday.
US forces on Friday “carried out a collective self-defense strike” in support of the Somali National Army “engaged in heavy fighting following a complex and prolonged heavy attack by more than 100 al-Shabab fighters,” the statement said. A terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda.
There were no U.S. forces on the ground when the strike occurred, a U.S. defense official said.
The attack occurred near Galkad, about 260 kilometers northeast of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. U.S. Africa Command assessed that no civilians were injured or killed due to the remote location.
The United States has provided continued support to the Somali government since May 2022, when President Joe Biden approved a Pentagon request to redeploy U.S. forces to the region in an attempt to counter terrorist groups. I’ve been President Donald Trump has made the decision to withdraw all US troops from the United States in 2020.
“Somalia remains the center of stability and security across East Africa. We will continue to train, advise and equip our partner forces to serve,” the U.S. military said in a statement Saturday.
In recent months, US forces have carried out numerous attacks in the region, resulting in dozens of al-Shabaab casualties.
In October a US attack killed two al-Shabaab members approximately 218 kilometers north-northwest of Mogadishu. His subsequent strike in November killed 17 of his al-Shabaab fighters about 285 kilometers northeast of Mogadishu. And he said in late December, another U.S. airstrike killed six al-Shabaab militants near the city of Qadare, about 150 miles northeast of the capital.
