US Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced on Thursday it had carried out an airstrike in coordination with the Somali government against a checkpoint used by the militant group al-Shabaab.
AFRICOM said on Thursday the airstrike hit a checkpoint “in [the] vicinity of Hantiwadaag.”
The Germany-based command said its initial assessment was that one terrorist had been killed and there were no civilian casualties. AFRICOM’s operation in Somalia is justified by connections between al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda.
The pace of US airstrikes in Somalia has increased dramatically in 2020. By the end of April, AFRICOM had carried out 39 airstrikes in the East African nation in four months’ time: more than had taken place in all eight years of Barack Obama’s presidency, according to The Intercept.
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