Trump airstrikes target ‘senior IS attack planner’ in Somalia
The US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, indicated multiple jihadists were killed and no civilians were harmed
The US military has conducted airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African country during Donald Trump’s second term as president.
The strikes were carried out against IS-Somalia in the Golis Mountains, in Somalia’s semi-autonomous northern Puntland region. In 2015, IS-Somalia splintered from al-Shabaab, a much larger and better known jihadist organisation affiliated with al-Qaida, which controls parts of southern Somalia.
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