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President Joe Biden recently ordered a raid in Somalia against the Islamic State group in which one of the group’s leaders has been killed. Bilal al-Sudani died during a gunfight following a descent by US troops on a mountainous cave complex in northern Somalia. They had hoped to capture him according to US officials. Additionally, 10 of Sudani’s Islamic State ...

United States air strikes in Somalia killed an estimated 37 fighters from the militant Islamist group Al-Shabaab, the US military said Tuesday. Check also: Mogadishu: How Al-Qaida Leader In East African Was killed The two air strikes were carried out Monday near Debatscile, the military’s Africa command said in a statement, adding that the “air strikes did not injure or kill ...