🇸🇴 🚨 💥SOMALIA LAUNCHES LARGE-SCALE OPERATIONS TARGETING AL-SHABAAB HELD TERRITORIES, MORE THAN 70 MILITANTS KILLED💥
The Somali military launched large-scale ground operations targeting territory held by the Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen militant group, commonly known as al-Shabaab.
The Somali military says heavy fighting took place between Somali troops and al-Shabaab militants in the Aboodin area of the Lower Jubba region amid a strong military ground offensive into the rebel-held territories with close U.S. air support.
According to a statement released by the Somali military, more than 70 al-Shabaab fighters were killed and dozens more wounded in the fighting.
Allied forces consisting of the Somali military and Jubaland soldiers attacked concentrations of al-Shabaab's group leaders, leading to the deaths of a number of senior commanders.
"More than 70 militants and leaders were killed in the war,” the Somali military said in its statement, adding that the U.S. military provided air support to the ground operation in Al-Shabaab strongholds.
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At least 300 people killed and hundreds seriously injured in attack blamed on militant group al-Shabaab
Can we all just take a moment please.
Anybody who lights candles or who sends prayers or thoughts or who just pays respects. This is your turn.
Those who can donate. This is your turn.
Those who have opinions about radicalism, about violence and bombing and need them to be known. This is your turn.
Mogadishu is a city. It is built up and urban. This happened right in the centre.
Over 300 people dead. Three hundred people killed in one bombing.
Al-Shabab is an Islamist extremist group. They are attacking other Muslims in Muslim countries. If you care about terrorism, about extremism, about fundamentalism, please take a little bit of time to care about this.
I don’t know what you can do. Maybe nothing. I want to do something but I am at a loss of what I, a single British person sat at home can do. But I can share this. I can say. Look. Look at this. Don’t ignore it because it happened in Somalia.
And I can ask those with the means to to care and take action.
And I can ask you to remember that those Muslim and Somalian refugees that we are turning away from the UK and the US - this is what they are leaving behind and this is what we are condemning them to go back to.
Three hundred people dead in one bombing. I can barely grasp it.