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The agreement comes at a time when the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, known as ATMIS, is scaling back its presence in Somalia. US to build 5 new military bases for Somali army ...
[106] July 5; A self defense strike 300 miles southwest of Mogadishu killed 13 al-Shabaab militants and wounded 10 more. The strike came after a Somali military base was attacked. [107] July 29; A kinetic strike killed one al-Shabaab fighter, later identified as Ali Muhammad, in Southern Somalia. [108] August 10
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. forces carried out airstrikes in Somalia on Saturday targeting a senior Islamic State attack planner and other members of the militant group, killing many of them ...
On May 31, 2024 U.S. forces conducted an airstrike in a semi-autonomous state in north-eastern Somalia aimed at taking out Abdulqadir Mumin, leader of the Islamic State in Somalia, who survived.
1 March – The Puntland Dervish Force captures an ISIS base in Buqa Caleed, in the Cal Miskaad mountain range of Bari Region, Puntland. [105] [106] 7 March – The United States Army stationed in Puntland's Bari region continues to maintain its operations and will not pull out of the region in response to double ongoing Puntland anti-ISIS ...
On June 8, 2024, Al-Shabaab militants attacked four military bases and overran the town of El Dher for several hours, killing many soldiers of the Somali National Force. The militants were eventually defeated by a U.S.-assisted airstrike. This was the deadliest terrorist attack since the Aws Wayne debacle. [7] [8] [9] [10]
At least 17 people were killed in Somalia on Saturday after Islamist group al Shabaab attacked a military base. The Busley base, in the Lower Shabelle region in the country's southwest, was ...
Somali forces were able to hold onto the base. [3] A Somali commander from a nearby town stated that seven Somali soldiers, including the base's commander, were killed in the attack. [4] This number later rose to ten soldiers killed. [3] al-Shabaab, immediately after the attack, claimed the deaths of sixty-three Somali soldiers. [5]