{"id":75482,"date":"2017-10-20T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75482"},"modified":"2017-10-20T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:23:00","slug":"us-responds-to-mogadishu-truck-bombing-with-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75482","title":{"rendered":"US responds to Mogadishu truck bombing with drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/2.1198\/us-drone-strike-targets-al-shabab-after-somalia-attack-1.493450\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that on Saturday, al-Shabab militants in Mogadishu, Somalia detonated a truck bomb which killed more than 300 people and injured 400 others. In response, US forces there have stepped up drone operations;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The U.S. has stepped up its military involvement in the Horn of Africa nation since President Donald Trump approved expanded military operations against the group early this year. The U.S. has carried out at least 19 drone strikes in Somalia since January, according to The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which tracks U.S. drone strikes in a number of countries.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a Pentagon spokesman said the United States has about 400 troops in Somalia and &#8220;we&#8217;re not going to speculate&#8221; about sending more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One US servicemember has been killed in operations in Somalia since the increased involvement of US forces there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that on Saturday, al-Shabab militants in Mogadishu, Somalia detonated a truck bomb &hellip; <a title=\"US responds to Mogadishu truck bombing with drones\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75482\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US responds to Mogadishu truck bombing with drones<\/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-75482","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\/75482","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=75482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}