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A U.S. military strike has killed approximately 30 al Shabaab militants near the central Somali town of Galcad, where Somalia’s military was engaged in heavy fighting, U.S. Africa Command said in a statement.

File Image: Al-Shabaab soldiers sit outside a building during patrol along the streets of Dayniile district in Southern Mogadishu, March 5, 2012.File Image: Al-Shabaab soldiers sit outside a building during patrol along the streets of Dayniile district in Southern Mogadishu, March 5, 2012.

The operation, which the U.S. military described as a “collective self-defense strike,” occurred on Friday about 162 miles north of the capital Mogadishu, where Somali national forces were under attack by more than 100 al Shabaab fighters, the statement said. U.S. Africa Command, the military arm of the American government’s presence on the continent, said no civilians were injured or killed in the strike. It said three vehicles were destroyed. Al Shabaab fighters had stormed a Somali military base in Galcad on Friday and killed at least seven soldiers, according to the Somali government and the militant group.

The fighters exploded car bombs and fired weapons but were eventually repelled. Somalia’s Information Ministry said in a statement that in addition to, their soldiers had killed 100 of the group’s fighters and destroyed five gun-mounted pick-up vehicles known as technicals. Al Shabaab has been fighting since 2006 to topple the country’s central government and install its own rule, based on a strict interpretation of Islam. Friday’s attack underscored the formidable threat that al Shabaab poses for Somalia’s military, despite government successes against the al Qaeda-allied militants last year.

 

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USA should just announce killing as sport to them ,and we know is not only al shabaab you killed even innocent civilians

They keep killing nje and no account at all... US for you

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