Washington D.C
CNN
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US Africa Command says it killed 12 people al-Shabaab warrior in a remote part of Somalia on Friday to support that country’s federal government and military.
No civilians were injured or killed, AFRICOM said in a statement Sunday, due to the remote location of the attack, about 472 kilometers northeast of the Somali capital Mogadishu.
“The rooting of extremism requires intervention that goes beyond traditional military means,” the command said.
The United States has provided ongoing support to the Somali government since President Joe Biden last year Approved the Pentagon’s request to redeploy US troops in the region in an effort to combat the terrorist group al-Shabaab. Consent to send less than 500 troops is an inversion of the former President Donald Trumpdecided to withdraw all US troops from the country by 2020.
In recent months, US forces have carried out numerous attacks in the area that have resulted in dozens of al-Shabaab casualties.
Last month, America make a strike in Somalia killed about 30 al-Shabaab fighters, AFRICOM said. A US strike in October kill two members of the terrorist group and an attack the following November kill 17 fighters. And at the end of December, a US attack kill six al-Shabaab . fighters near the city of Cadale.
