{"id":71871,"date":"2017-05-05T09:03:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71871"},"modified":"2017-05-05T10:26:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:26:52","slug":"us-service-member-killed-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71871","title":{"rendered":"US service member killed in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to a short <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2017\/05\/05\/u-s-service-member-killed-in-somalia-during-an-operation-against-al-shabab\/?utm_term=.af9540e23541\">Washington Post<\/a> article which reports that a US service member was killed in Somalia while fighting against al-Qaeda-linked Al Shabab;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The incident, which took place Thursday 40 miles west of the capital Mogadishu in an area called Barii, was a part of an intensified American effort to help Somali forces beat back the extremist group al-Shabab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cU.S. forces are assisting partner forces to counter al-Shabab in Somalia to degrade the al-Qaeda affiliate\u2019s ability to recruit, train and plot external terror attacks throughout the region and in America,\u201d the U.S. Africa Command said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Added:<\/strong> Fox News is reporting that two others were injured and they remind us that this is the first US soldier killed in Somalia since 1993.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to a short Washington Post article which reports that a &hellip; <a title=\"US service member killed in Somalia\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71871\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US service member killed in Somalia<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}