Source: International Business Times
A Somali National Army soldiers with international partners had pushed Al-Shabaab back in 2022, 2023 AFP Joint US-Somalia air strikes and combat killed dozens of Al-Shabaab jihadists attacking a key town and a military base and also destroyed a shipment of weapons, the Somali government said on Thursday. Growing attacks by the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group, including one on President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's convoy, are fuelling worries of a jihadist resurgence after militants were forced to retreat in recent years. One air strike on Adan Yabaal, 220 kilometres (140 miles) north of the capital Mogadishu came as Al-Shabaab fighters raided the key town used as a base by Somali military commanders.
