Somalia

Shabaab has taken over the town of Walaweyn. Five Ethiopian soldiers were killed in a Shabaab ambush outside the town of Baidoa. The UN has declined to send peacekeeping forces to Somalia until the political situation improves.

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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