{"id":31607,"date":"2019-02-03T09:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T09:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31607"},"modified":"2019-02-03T09:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T09:23:23","slug":"us-army-says-it-killed-13-al-shabab-fighters-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31607","title":{"rendered":"US army says it killed 13 al-Shabab fighters in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"97.8284960422\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">At least 13 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/al-shabab.html\">al-Shabab<\/a> fighters, have been killed in an air raid outside the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the US army said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In a statement released on Saturday, US Africom said that the attack happened in Gandarshe, 48km south of Mogadishu, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;To support the Federal Government of Somalia&#8217;s continued efforts to degrade al-Shabab, US Africa Command conducted an airstrike targeting al-Shabab fighters in the vicinity of Gandarshe, Lower Shebelle Region, Somalia, on February 1, 2019,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;US Africa Command currently assesses this airstrike killed thirteen (13) militants. At this time, it was assessed no civilians were injured or killed in this airstrike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the 10th attack by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a> this year in the Horn of Africa country. Last year, it carried out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebureauinvestigates.com\/projects\/drone-war\/charts?show_casualties=1&#038;show_injuries=1&#038;show_strikes=1&#038;location=somalia&#038;from=2018-1-1&#038;to=2019-1-1\" target=\"_blank\">at least 48 attacks<\/a> in Somalia, killing more than 330 fighters, according to The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/al-qaeda.html\">al-Qaeda<\/a>-linked armed group fighting to overthrow the country&#8217;s Western-backed government.\u00a0The group regularly stages attacks against the Somali military and against troops from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/african-union.html\">African Union<\/a>-mandated peacekeeping force AMISOM.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>On Thursday, an air attack by the US army killed 24 al-Shabab fighters in neighbouring Hiran region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, an al-Shabab suicide bomber detonated an explosive-laden vehicle at a checkpoint manned by Ethiopian troops in the southern town of Bardhere.<\/p>\n<p>Local security officials told AFP news agency that four Ethiopian troops were killed in the blast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 13 al-Shabab fighters, have been killed in an air raid outside the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the US army said. In a statement released on Saturday, US Africom said that the attack happened in Gandarshe, 48km south of Mogadishu, on Friday. &#8220;To support the Federal Government of Somalia&#8217;s continued efforts to degrade al-Shabab, US&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31607","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\/31607","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=31607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}