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US military targets ISIS-Somalia in fifth airstrike since April


By Caroline Kelly and Ryan Browne, CNN

Updated 9:12 AM ET, Thu May 23, 2019

Washington (CNN)The US targeted ISIS fighters in Somalia for the fifth time since mid-April, killing two terrorists in an airstrike Wednesday, US Africa Command said in a statement.

"Our efforts to locate and eradicate ISIS leaders who control a range of activities -- from operations to financing and communications -- is hitting at the heart of the organization and disrupting their ability to continue their terrorist activities," Rear Adm. Heidi Berg, the director of intelligence of US Africa Command, said in a statement Thursday.

The recent series of strikes against ISIS-Somalia have taken place in the Golis Mountains, located in the northern part of the country.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/isis-somalia-fifth-airstrikes/index.html

Fishrrman:
Somalia?
Wasted ammunition.

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