US military warns of Shabaab resurgence, strikes ‘command and logistics node’
By Bill Roggio | June 11, 2017
While announcing an airstrike that targeted a Shabaab “command and logistics node” in southern Somalia, the US military warned of al Qaeda’s resurgence in the country and said it has “taken advantage of safe haven.” The strike is the first announced by the US military since the Trump administration declared that it would expand operations against al Qaeda’s branch in Somalia.
US Africa Command, or AFRICOM, announced that it targeted a “command and logistics node at a camp located approximately 185 miles southwest of Mogadishu in a stronghold for the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab organization” in an airstrike. AFRCOM assessed that eight Shabaab operatives were killed.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2017/06/us-military-warns-of-shabaab-resurgence-strikes-command-and-logistics-node.php
