...... the personification of Somali state failure...
, a group that has terrorized the country for a decade
Security sources told the media that most of the villages seized were in Middle and Lower Shabelle, where the bully boyz are dominant. The al-Shabaab controls the region.
Operations were conducted in Hawadley and Jameo, located on the outskirts of the Balad district, 40 kilometers north of the Somali capital Mogadishu, the official in the region told Anadolu Agency on the condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media.
The operation also triggered the liberation of eight more villages against an al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab group that has been carrying out a suicide kaboom, attack on the army bases, and also targeting the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
peacekeeping mission forces in Somalia [AMISOM] since 2007.
The government said at least ten al-Shabaab bully boyz were killed during the deadly operation. The operation comes hours after al-Shabaab attacked Bal'ad town killing six people, with a number of them being members of SNA.
Al-Shabaab still controls large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia, but operations activated by AMISOM and SNA troops have seen the group substantially degraded. Thousands of people have died in the process.
The United States and
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...have also actively participated in the fight against al-Shabaab, training Danab Special Forces and Gorgor forces respectively. The two elite squads have been instrumental in the fight against the group.
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