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US Green Berets in Mozambique as ‘Brutal’ ISIS Siege Unfolds in the North, Spurring ‘Dunkirk-Style’ Evacuation
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By Nolan Peterson | March 29, 2021

Sunday marked the fifth day of heavy fighting between militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, or ISIS, and government forces in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado, underscoring a rapidly worsening security situation less than two weeks after a contingent of US Army Special Forces arrived in the country to train its armed forces in counterinsurgency combat.

“The Embassy is deeply concerned by the terrorists’ continued assaults against the residents of Cabo Delgado, who have suffered tremendously from the terrorists’ brutal and indiscriminate tactics,” the US Embassy in Mozambique said in a Friday statement.

For nearly a week, militants belonging to a newly minted Islamic State group affiliate have laid siege to the strategic port city of Palma in northern Mozambique. The past few days of violence have been horrific, according to area news reports. The Islamist militants have killed scores of civilians, reportedly “littering the streets” of Palma with bodies, according to Human Rights Watch and The Associated Press. Witnesses described the near constant sound of gunfire.

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