Somalia

Five soldiers were killed in an IED attack in Mogadishu. Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohammed Rage said that Shabaab’s Ramadan offensive has been successful. The spokesman for Ahlu Sunnah Waljama™a claimed his group has intelligence about Shabaab attacks in government-controlled areas.

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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