Somalia

Over 20 were killed in the eighth day of fighting in Mogadishu. Somalia’s Prime Minister claimed the insurgency has been defeated. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister stated it will continue to fight “al Qaeda [and the] Eritrea-backed international terrorist group calling itself Al-Shabat” in Somalia.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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