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Africa Horn
US Forces Kill Militants In Fresh Airstrike Against Al-Shabaab
2019-02-10
[RADIOSHABELLE] The United States military says it has killed eight al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
Death Eaters with an Arclight airstrike in southern Somalia.

A U.S. Africa Command statement says Friday’s strike hit near Kobon, not far from the port city of Kismayo
...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region...
The U.S. says Kobon has been used to stage attacks against Somali forces. Its statement says no non-combatants were killed in the airstrike.

The U.S. military has carried out at least a dozen such airstrikes this year in Somalia against the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab, the deadliest Islamic group in Africa.

Posted by:Fred

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