A U.S Africa Command statement on Saturday described the airstrike as carried out Thursday in "collective self-defense" and at the request of the Somali National Army near the town of Cadale in the Middle Shabelle region.
The US military says it carried out an airstrike in support of Somali government operations against the extremist al-Shabab group, which killed some of the group's fighters.
A U.S Africa Command statement on Saturday described the airstrike as carried out Thursday in "collective self-defense" and at the request of the Somali National Army near the town of Cadale in the Middle Shabelle region. Cadale is 220 kilometers north of the capital Mogadishu. The U.S
The statement said that Al-Shabab militants attacked Somali forces. He says the first assessment is that no civilians were killed. The United States has conducted dozens of drone strikes against extremists in Somalia in recent years.
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