{"id":166077,"date":"2025-02-02T09:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T14:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=166077"},"modified":"2025-02-01T19:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T00:08:12","slug":"u-s-military-strikes-conducted-against-islamic-state-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=166077","title":{"rendered":"U.S. military strikes conducted against Islamic State in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-best-part-of-waking-up-is-Donald-Trump-is-president.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-166078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-best-part-of-waking-up-is-Donald-Trump-is-president-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-best-part-of-waking-up-is-Donald-Trump-is-president-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-best-part-of-waking-up-is-Donald-Trump-is-president-309x333.jpg 309w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-best-part-of-waking-up-is-Donald-Trump-is-president-768x828.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-best-part-of-waking-up-is-Donald-Trump-is-president.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump authorized and directed U.S. military strikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia. These attacks were coordinated with the Somalian government. The strikes killed multiple operatives in an operation that didn&#8217;t see civilians get harmed. The strikes centered on caves where these terrorists were at.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From PBS:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday that the strikes by U.S. Africa Command were directed by Trump and coordinated with Somalia&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n<p>An initial assessment by the Pentagon indicated that &#8220;multiple&#8221; operatives were killed. The Pentagon said it assessed that no civilians were harmed in the strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in a post on social media, said a senior IS planner and recruits were targeted in the operation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians. Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn&#8217;t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did!&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that &#8220;WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump did not identify the IS planner or say whether that person was killed in the strike. White House officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon&#8217;s counterterrorism strategy in Africa has been strained as two key partners, Chad and Niger, ousted U.S. forces last year and took over key bases that the U.S. military had used to train and conduct missions against terrorist groups across the Sahel, the vast arid expanse south of the Sahara Desert.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PBS Journalist. (2025, February 1). U.S. military strikes Islamic State operatives in Somalia for the first time in Trump&#8217;s new term. <em>PBS<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/u-s-military-strikes-islamic-state-operatives-in-somalia-for-the-first-time-in-trumps-new-term\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump authorized and directed U.S. military strikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia. 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