News From Antiwar.com by Will Porter
The US military has carried out at least 23 airstrikes on Somalia so far this month, part of a major surge in the Trump administration’s bombing campaign on the African nation. Last year saw a record number of strikes on Somalia, though data on civilian casualties is not always forthcoming.
US Africa Command (ARICOM) has announced a flurry of recent strikes allegedly targeting ISIS and al-Shabaab militants, including at least four in the last week alone. The latest operations took place in Godane – north of the capital city, Mogadishu – as well as around the Golis Mountains in the northern Puntland region.
Over the last year, the command has “gotten a lot more aggressive” in Africa, and is “working with partners to target, kinetically, the threats, mainly ISIS,” AFRICOM Lieutenant General John Brennan told AFP last week…
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