{"id":397365,"date":"2020-03-07T22:05:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T19:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=397365"},"modified":"2020-03-07T22:07:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T19:07:27","slug":"joint-forces-kill-4-al-shabaab-militants-in-an-airstrike-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/joint-forces-kill-4-al-shabaab-militants-in-an-airstrike-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint forces kill 4 Al-Shabaab militants in an airstrike operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Mogadishu(SONNA)-On the early afternoon of March 7, 2020, the Federal Government of Somalia, in partnership with the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), conducted an airstrike against Al-Shabaab militants in the vicinity of Gandarshe, Somalia.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This precision airstrike 4 Al-Shabaab, terrorists.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The FGS and the US AFRICOM take significant measures to prevent civilians&#8217; casualties in the fight against the Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist puppet Al-Shabaab and investigate each reported allegation thoroughly.\u00a0 At this time, no civilians are assessed to have been killed or injured in the attack.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This strike is in support of the FGS efforts to rid Somalia of the atrocities of al-Shabaab and provide a better future for the Somali people.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Somali National Army&#8217;s Danab and its United States partners are committed to fighting Al-Shabaab terrorists to prevent the deaths of innocent civilians that include men, women, and children in Somalia and its neighboring countries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The efforts we take to protect and safeguard civilians dramatically contrast to the indiscriminate attacks that the cowards al-Shabaab regularly conducts against the civilian populace of Somalia.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This strike comes the day after SNA forces stationed at Ceel Salini defeated an Al-Shabaab attack on their military base. Around 30 Al-Shabaab militants attempted to overrun the base but were easily defeated by the SNA Soldiers stationed there. No SNA soldiers were wounded or killed in the battle.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This successful defense highlights the increasing ability of the SNA in their fight against the terrorist group.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">#Statement<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu(SONNA)-On the early afternoon of March 7, 2020, the Federal Government of Somalia, in partnership with the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), conducted an airstrike against Al-Shabaab militants in the vicinity of Gandarshe, Somalia. This precision airstrike 4 Al-Shabaab, terrorists. The FGS and the US AFRICOM take significant measures to prevent civilians&#8217; casualties in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397365"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397369,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397365\/revisions\/397369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}