The United States carried out an attack in Somalia on Saturday, in the Golis-Bergen. According to the local administration, several prominent members of the Islamic State terror group (IS) are killed, although the precise death toll is not yet known. US President Donald Trump says there were no civilian deaths; Media and international press agencies have not been able to verify that.
According to Trump, the attack was, among other things, aimed at a high -ranking planner of attacks, which the US had long had in sight. “These murderers, hiding in caves, threaten the United States and our allies,” Trump wrote in a message on his social media platform Truth Social. The Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud spoke in a message on X His “deepest thanks for the unwavering support of the United States in our joint fight against terrorism.”
The US has previously been attacked in Somalia, but this was the first attack on the land since the inauguration of Trump. The new president says that “many terrorists” were killed, “without harming citizens.” However, it happened earlier that the American government claimed that no civilian deaths had fallen, while it turned out to be later.
Where was mainly mainly active in Syria and Iraq, the group is now mainly present in African countries. The Somali branch of IS was founded in 2015 by former members of Al-Shabaab, which is the largest jihadist group in Somalia.
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