Somalia

Dahir Gurey Sheikh Ali Guled, a senior Shabaab military commander, was killed in fighting in Mogadishu. The government claimed 20 Shabaab fighters were killed in Mogadishu; Shabaab denied the report. Shabaab took credit for yesterday’s suicide assault on the Mogadishu airport.

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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