Somalia

Shabaab fighters have taken over towns as close as 35 miles south of the provincial capital of Baidoa. Four civilians were killed after Shabaab fighters attacked Ethiopian forces south of Mogadishu. Somali sources said Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was not killed in the recent airstrike in Dhobley.

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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