U.S. and Kenyan forces were unprepared at the Manda Bay airstrip and Camp Simba when al-Shabab attacked on Jan. 5, leading to the deaths of three Americans and the destruction of six aircraft, the head of U.S. Africa Command said Jan. 30. Al-Shabab was able ...
The Jan. 5 attack on a US-operation airstrip in Kenya killed US Army Spc. Henry Mayfield Jr., along with two American contractors who have yet to be identified. Two more American service members were injured in the attack. Al-Shabab also reportedly spread rumors online that ...
Three Americans—one service member and two contractor—were killed and two more US troops were injured in an al-Shabab attack on an airstrip in Kenya on Jan. 5. Al-Shabab briefly breached the walls of the Camp Simba airstrip in Manda Bay using indirect and small arms ...
US and Kenyan forces on Jan. 5 repelled an al-Shabab attack on an airstrip in Kenya, killing four terrorists that attempted to breach the base at Camp Simba in Manda Bay.
Four members of the al-Shabab terror group were killed in three airstrikes in Somalia on Dec. 29, according to US Africa Command. The US military conducted a total of five strikes against al-Shabab in Somalia in December, killing six militants.
A Dec. 16 US airstrike near Dujuma, Somalia, killed one member of the al-Shabaab terrorist organization without harming any civilians, according to US Africa Command assessments. It was the second American airstrike targeting the group within Somali borders in seven days.
A Dec. 9 US airstrike near Saakow, Somalia, that was coordinated with the Somalian government killed a member of the al-Shabaab terror group without harming any civilians, according to US Africa Command assessments.
The US targeted members of the al-Shabaab terror group in a Nov. 30 airstrike near Jilib, Somalia, US Africa Command said in a press release the same day. AFRICOM did not say whether anyone died in the strike, but noted it does not believe any ...
A Nov. 19 US Africa Command airstrike in Somalia killed a member of the al-Shabaab terror group with “direct ties to the al-Qaeda terror organization” without harming any civilians, US Africa Command announced. It was the second US airstrike in Somalia targeting an al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab ...
American forces killed a terrorist affiliated with the al-Shabaab group in a Nov. 12 airstrike, US Africa Command announced. The strike was part of an ongoing partnership with the Somali government to “maintain pressure on al-Shabaab’s network and levels of leadership while countering violent extremist ...