Somalia

Thirty people were killed and more than 70 were wounded during shelling in Mogadishu. In Kismayo, 12 were killed after Hizbul Islam attacked a Shabaab stronghold yesterday. Somali pirates hijacked a Panamanian cargo ship and threatened to kill passengers of a Chinese freighter.

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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