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The US carried out a strike in Somalia that killed six al-Shabaab militants on Friday, US Africa Command stated in a press release.
The strike was in “self-defense,” in line with the command, or AFRICOM, and it was carried out on the request of the Somali authorities. According to an preliminary evaluation, no civilians have been killed or injured, AFRICOM stated.
It was the third such strike in 10 days, and it occurred in the identical space of Somalia close to the town of Cadale, about 150 miles northeast of the capital of Mogadishu.
The first was on December 14, and AFRICOM stated seven al-Shabaab militants have been killed. The second strike got here three days later and killed eight al-Shabaab militants.
“Al-Shabaab is the largest and most deadly al-Qaeda network in the world and has proven both its will and capability to attack Somali, East African, and American civilians,” AFRICOM stated within the assertion.
The US has supplied ongoing help to the Somali authorities since President Joe Biden accepted in May a Pentagon request to redeploy US troops to the realm in an try to counter the terrorist group. The approval to ship fewer than 500 troops was a reversal of former President Donald Trump’s choice to withdraw all US troops from the nation in 2020.