US Launches Its 49th Airstrike of the Year in Somalia

by Dave DeCamp

 

US Africa Command said in a press release on Friday that its forces launched an airstrike in Somalia’s Puntland region on July 10 as the Trump administration continues to bomb the country at a record pace.

AFRICOM offered no details about the strike other than saying it targeted the local ISIS affiliate and was launched to the southeast of the port city of Bossaso. Since April, the command has stopped sharing estimates on casualties or assessments of potential civilian harm.

The US has been backing local Puntland security forces in their campaign against the ISIS affiliate in the Cal Miskaad mountains in Puntland’s Bari region. Puntland’s Counter-Terrorism Operations said in a post on X on July 10 that the US launched airstrikes that week against “fleeing ISIS militants” in the Cal Miskaad mountains…

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