Somalia

A senior Somali military commander was killed in Baidoa. Burundi said it will send an additional 850 troops to Mogadishu. Pirates hijacked a Yemeni freighter traveling in the Gulf of Aden.

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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