Somalia

A roadside bomb wounded at 12 Somali soldiers stationed outside the parliament building in Baidoa. Shabaab fighters attacked a military checkpoint in Hiran province. Five civilian were wounded in a mortar attack in Mogadishu.

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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