{"id":73196,"date":"2017-07-04T08:55:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T12:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73196"},"modified":"2017-07-04T08:55:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T12:55:33","slug":"trump-targets-al-shabbab-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73196","title":{"rendered":"Trump targets al-Shabbab again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us-carries-airstrike-against-al-shabab-somalia-075825454.html\">Associated Press<\/a>, the US staged another air strike against the Somalian al-Shabbab training camps again, as the US steps up attacks on the al-Queda-linked group holding the failed-nation hostage. The strikes launched on Sunday are part of the larger strategy in the war against global terrorism;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Donald Trump has approved expanded military operations against al-Shabab, including more aggressive airstrikes and considering parts of southern Somalia areas of active hostilities. The U.S. in April announced it was sending dozens of regular troops to Somalia in the largest such deployment there in roughly two decades, saying it was for logistics training of Somalia&#8217;s army.<\/p>\n<p>The Horn of Africa nation is trying to rebuild after more than two decades as a failed state, and its chaos helped in the rise of al-Shabab. Now a new threat has emerged in the country&#8217;s north with fighters claiming alliance to the Islamic State group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least this time, US troops aren&#8217;t being deployed under the guise of a meals-on-wheels program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associated Press, the US staged another air strike against the Somalian al-Shabbab training &hellip; <a title=\"Trump targets al-Shabbab again\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73196\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump targets al-Shabbab again<\/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-73196","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\/73196","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=73196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}