Somalia

Insurgents bombed the home of Baidoa’s police chief; one soldier was killed. Heavy fighting between Shabaab and Somali and Ethiopian forces was reported in Mogadishu. An insurgent group called the Jabhada Islamiga Somaliyeed freed two Somali soldiers. A second group of 100 Burundi peacekeepers arrived 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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