Somalia

The government claimed it defeated Shabaab attacks on the interior and education ministries in Mogadishu. The UN’s under secretary-general for political affairs urged the government to reach out to “dissident groups” to shore up its legitimacy.

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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