The Biden administration is considering sending troops back into Somalia after former President Donald Trump abruptly pulled them out before leaving office, forcing counterterrorism training operations against al Shabab to go remote and inhibiting intelligence collection, says a top U.S. general.

The United States had some 900 troops in Somalia doing advise and assist, intelligence collection, and helping to plot strikes against al Shabab and ISIS terrorists operating in the country until Trump declaring an end to “endless wars” called for all the troops to come home in December. Since then, U.S. Africa Command chief Gen. Stephen Townsend told the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday that “al Shabab looks over their shoulder every day.”