A committee in Somalia tasked with investigating the killing of a Somali clan elder who was hit by a US airstrike has found that he was a peaceful figure with no links to militant groups, rejecting claims from US Africa Command that he was an al-Shabaab weapons...
A US-trained Somali government force killed dozens of civilians during an attack on a village in southern Somalia that started Tuesday night and continued until Wednesday morning, according to Somali media reports. According to the Somali Guardian, the attack targeted...
US Africa Command told Antiwar.com in an email on Tuesday that its forces have launched 111 airstrikes in Somalia this year, an unprecedented number as President Trump has dramatically escalated the US war in the country. The figure is more than 10 times the number of...
US Africa Command has announced in recent days that its forces have launched at least seven more airstrikes in Somalia as the Trump administration continues its record-breaking bombing campaign in the country, which receives virtually no media coverage in the United...
Gen. Dagvin Anderson, the commander of US Africa Command, visited Somalia's Puntland region late last month and called for the US-backed war against the small ISIS affiliate in the area to be "intensified," according to a press release from AFRICOM. The US has...
The US Department of War insisted on Tuesday that it's not waging a "forever war" in Somalia despite the fact that the Trump administration has shattered the record for annual airstrikes in the country. Liam Cosgrove, a reporter for ZeroHedge, noted during a Pentagon...
US Africa Command has announced that its forces have launched another airstrike in Somalia, marking the 102nd time the US has bombed the country this year, an unprecedented number. AFRICOM said the strike occurred on November 30 and offered no details other than...
President Trump has taken a shot at the government of Somalia as part of his criticism of Somali migrants in the US, despite the fact that he has provided the Mogadishu-based Federal Government of Somalia with more air support than any other US president in history....
US Africa Command is aware of reports that it killed a civilian Somali clan elder in an airstrike that was launched in Somalia's northern Sanag region on September 13, the command told Antiwar.com in an email on Tuesday. AFRICOM has claimed that the airstrike killed...
Updated on November 26 at 4:00 pm EST US Africa Command on Wednesday confirmed that it launched another airstrike in Somalia on Tuesday, the same day that Somali media reported that US troops took part in a ground raid on a cave and fought against ISIS militants on...
