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Somali security officers hold position on their open trucks near Syl Hotel, the scene of an al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab group's attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, on March 15, 2024.
Forty-five to sixty al-Shabaab members were reportedly killed in a US drone strike in Lower Shabelle, after explosions rocked a training camp, a house, and several armored vehicles. The U.S. denied its involvement in the strikes. It was the most lethal American attack in Somalia against radical Islamists to date. [61]
Somalia–United States relations (Somali: Xiriirka Maraykanka-Soomaaliya; Arabic: علاقات صومالية أمريكية) are bilateral relations between the Federal Republic of Somalia and the United States of America. Somalia has an embassy in Washington, D.C., and the United States maintains an embassy in Mogadishu which was reopened in ...
Territorial control of Somalia as of April 2017. Nonetheless, by 2016, al-Shabaab was viewed as significantly weakened by the military campaign against it, with earlier losses compounded in 2014–15 by Operation Indian Ocean, a joint endeavour by AMISOM, the Somali government, and the United States.
Somalia’s request was supported by the African Union, all countries that contribute soldiers to the force and the council, which agreed to delay the pullout of the 19,000-strong AU force for 90 ...
On March 27, 2023, President Joe Biden nominated Riley to be the next ambassador to Somalia. [1] His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate via voice vote on May 2, 2023. He was sworn into office on May 8, 2024. [3] He arrived in Mogadishu on June 17, 2024. [3] He presented his credentials to President Hassan Sheik Mohamud on June ...
On May 12, 2022, Larry André Jr., the American ambassador to Somalia, and General Stephen J. Townsend, Commander of the United States Africa Command met with Abdi in Hargeisa in what was described as the U.S not promoting the "secessionist ideology being pushed by Somaliland" in the context of the 2022 Somaliland presidential election and ...
A suburban Minnesota city became what is believed to be the first in the U.S. to elect a Somali American mayor when 27-year-old Nadia Mohamed was chosen to lead St. Louis Park. Mohamed won with 58 ...