Sheikh Ahmed Abdurahamn Odawa, the highest-ranking military commander of Hizbul Islam, who is also known as “Taliban,” was killed with his two bodyguards in Ealasha Biyaha village south of Mogadishu. Ethiopian intelligence agents raided a Galkayo house overnight Wednesday, wounding at least two Somali men inside and capturing another. Three people were killed after Hizbul Islam attacked a government base in the central village of Bacda.
