Somalia

Five people were killed during mortar exchanges between Shabaab and government forces in Mogadishu. The African Union claimed it seized “critical high ground” 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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