News From Antiwar.com by Dave DeCamp
US Africa Command announced on Monday that its forces launched another airstrike in Somalia as the Trump administration continues bombing the country at a record pace.
AFRICOM said in a press release that the strike occurred on February 3 and targeted the ISIS affiliate in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region, about 25 miles to the southeast of the Gulf of Aden port city of Bosaso. The command provided no other details about the attack.
The US has been backing the local Puntland government in its fight against ISIS-Somalia in a remote mountainous region, a bombing campaign that’s involved heavy strikes on caves. AFRICOM has also been conducting airstrikes against al-Shabaab in southern Somalia in support of the US-backed Mogadishu-based Federal Government…
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