{"id":29848,"date":"2019-01-20T02:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T02:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29848"},"modified":"2019-01-20T02:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T02:22:53","slug":"us-50-terrorists-killed-in-airstrike-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29848","title":{"rendered":"US: 50 terrorists killed in airstrike in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The US military said Saturday that an airstrike near the Jilib, Middle Juba Region of Somalia killed more than 50 al-Shabaab militants.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Al-Shabaab is an al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">US Africa Command, which oversees US military operations on the continent, said the airstrike was conducted &#8220;in response to an attack by a large group of al-Shabaab militants against Somali National Army Forces&#8221; on January 19. The US military said they &#8220;currently assess this airstrike killed fifty-two (52) militants&#8221; and that they assess that no civilians were killed or injured in the strike.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The US military said Saturday that an airstrike near the Jilib, Middle Juba Region of Somalia killed more than 50 al-Shabaab militants.Al-Shabaab is an al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group.US Africa Command, which oversees US military operations on the continent, said the airstrike was conducted &#8220;in response to an attack by a large group of al-Shabaab militants&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29848","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=29848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}