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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 ...
While the overall number of overseas military bases has fallen since 1945, the United States, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Russia and France still possess or utilize a substantial number of them. Smaller numbers of overseas military bases are operated by China, Iran, India, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.
[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
Barack Obama with Michelle Obama informing Buchanan's father that his daughter has been rescued, immediately after the State of the Union Address. [2]After raiding the pirates' compound and freeing the hostages, the U.S. forces returned to their base at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti.
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 ...
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 ...
Baledogle Airfield, also called Wanlaweyn Airstrip, is the largest military air base in Somalia, about 90 kilometers northwest of the capital, Mogadishu.The airfield was constructed in the 1970s for the Somali Air Force with assistance of the Soviet Union.
On October 26, 2016, fighters aligned with the Islamic State captured the small port town of Qandala in Puntland's Bari region.This was the first town Islamic State had taken control of in Somalia, the first notable expansion of their influence beyond their usual mountainous hideouts.