Somalia

The reconciliation conference was mortared by Islamist insurgents; the rounds missed the conference but killed five youths playing soccer. Seven somali troops were wounded in an IED attack in Afgoie. The African Union will expand its peacekeeping mission.

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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