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The US has carried out its first air strikes against purported Daesh positions in Somalia as Washington moves to step up its military campaign in the militancy-riddled state and the entire African continent.
Three bomb attacks, along with sporadic gunfire, have killed at least 18 people and injured 11 others in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
Three United Nations soldiers were killed and two others wounded by an explosive device as they were escorting a convoy in northern Mali on Thursday, the peacekeeping mission in the West African nation said.
Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has vowed to step up the fight against the al-Shabab Takfiri terrorist group following the weekend truck bombing that claimed the lives of over 300 people in the capital Mogadishu.
The death toll from two recent bomb blasts in busy locations in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, has jumped to 189 with more than 200 people injured, making them the deadliest attacks to have ever happened in the country.
The Takfiri al-Shabab terrorist group has attacked a military base near Somalia’s capital, capturing the base and a nearby village and killing at least 15 soldiers.
The United States Africa Command has claimed that its airstrikes have killed six members of the al-Shabab terrorist group in southern Somalia.
Government forces in Somalia have seized control of a town near the border with Kenya, after the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab terrorist group attacked a Somali military base there and left a number of soldiers dead.
At least six people have been killed and several others injured in a bomb attack carried out in central Somalia, police and residents say.
US military officials in Africa have claimed that a drone strike has killed three militants of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group in eastern Somalia.