Somalia

Ten Shabaab fighters and five Puntland security personnel were killed in clashes in the Sanaag mountains. Veterans of al Qaeda’s training camps in Afghanistan now run Shabaab, according to intelligence reports. AFRICOM will increase support to African Union forces in Mogadishu.

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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