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Anti-terrorist campaign in Somalia continues despite troop reduction

By Abraham Mahshie
Published December 14, 2020 9:01pm ET
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Anti-terrorist campaign in Somalia continues despite troop reduction
Screenshot of a video showing a precision air strike on the location of a known al-Shabaab explosives network leader near Jilib around 1 p.m. local time, Dec. 10, 2020. Initial assessments show the operation killed 8 and wounded 2 terrorists. | U.S. Africa Command

U.S. Africa Command showed it is not about to scale back the fight against Islamic terrorist group al Shabab in Somalia, releasing its first video of a targeted airstrike Dec. 10 as American soldiers prepare to leave the country at President Trump’s orders.

The short, black-and-white video with blue crosshairs shows a precision missile hitting a target inside a building compound. AFRICOM said eight bomb makers were killed and two were injured in the strike.

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