US claims 6 Shabab terrorists killed in Somalia air raids

The United States Africa Command has claimed that its airstrikes have killed six members of the al-Shabab terrorist group in southern Somalia.

According to Press TV, a statement from the command on Wednesday said the people were killed in three airstrikes carried out earlier in the morning in an area about 260 km south of the capital Mogadishu.

However, it did not elaborate on the location of the strikes and the identity of the militants.

Robyn Mack, a spokeswoman for the US Africa Command, only said the military assessment showed there were no civilians near the site of the attacks. Authorities said the airstrikes were coordinated with Somalia’s central government.

There have been many ambiguities surrounding US drone strikes and bombardments in the rural regions of Somalia, a war-torn country still reeling from more than two decades of militancy.

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