{"id":22818,"date":"2018-11-22T14:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T14:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22818"},"modified":"2018-11-22T14:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T14:22:25","slug":"us-air-strikes-target-al-shabab-fighters-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22818","title":{"rendered":"US air strikes target al-Shabab fighters in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"71.5033738192\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">At least six <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/al-Shabab.html\">al-Shabab<\/a>\u00a0fighters have been killed in two air strikes launched against targets near Haradere town in Somalia&#8217;s Galmudug state, the <a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">US<\/a> military said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A weapons cache was destroyed in a second air strike on Wednesday, it said, as part of the US&#8217; operations in Somalia since last year after President Donald Trump loosened the rules of engagement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">The US<\/a>\u00a0announced the latest deadly air strikes against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/al-qaeda.html\">al-Qaeda<\/a>-linked fighters, who control large parts of the country.\u00a0<span>It has conducted more than two dozen such airstrikes in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The US has now carried out 35 air strikes this year against al-Shabab, Africa&#8217;s deadliest armed group.<\/p>\n<p>Two air strikes on Monday killed 37 fighters and one on Tuesday killed seven.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six al-Shabab\u00a0fighters have been killed in two air strikes launched against targets near Haradere town in Somalia&#8217;s Galmudug state, the US military said on Thursday. A weapons cache was destroyed in a second air strike on Wednesday, it said, as part of the US&#8217; operations in Somalia since last year after President Donald&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}