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The US carried out a strike in Somalia that killed six al-Shabaab militants on Friday, US Africa Command mentioned in an announcement.
The strike was in “self-defense,” in response to the command, or AFRICOM, and it was carried out on the request of the Somali authorities. Based on an preliminary evaluation, no civilians had been killed or injured, AFRICOM mentioned.
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 primary was on December 14, and AFRICOM mentioned seven al-Shabaab militants had been killed. The second strike got here three days later and killed eight al-Shabaab militants.
“Al-Shabaab is the biggest and most threatening al-Qaeda community on the planet and has confirmed each its will and functionality to assault Somali, East African, and American civilians,” AFRICOM mentioned within the assertion.
The US has supplied ongoing assist to the Somali authorities since President Joe Biden authorised in Might a Pentagon request to redeploy US troops to the world 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 resolution to withdraw all US troops from the nation in 2020.