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Trump airstrikes target ‘senior IS attack planner’ in Somalia

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 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 more widely known jihadist organisation affiliated with al-Qaida, which controls parts of southern Somalia.

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