{"id":437577,"date":"2025-03-09T09:57:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T06:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=437577"},"modified":"2025-03-09T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T06:59:20","slug":"over-20-al-shabaab-militants-including-senior-commander-killed-in-airstrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/over-20-al-shabaab-militants-including-senior-commander-killed-in-airstrike\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 20 Al-Shabaab Militants, Including Senior Commander, Killed in Airstrike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), in coordination with international partners, carried out an airstrike in Ceel-Bacad, Middle Shabelle region, killing over 20 Al-Shabaab militants, including a senior commander.<\/p>\n<p>The operation targeted Yusuf Dheg-naas, a key figure in Al-Shabaab\u2019s extortion network, who had been intimidating local communities to collect illegal taxes. Several combat vehicles used by the militants were also destroyed in the raid.<\/p>\n<p>The Somali National Army and NISA, with support from global allies, have intensified efforts to eliminate the remaining Al-Shabaab strongholds, delivering a significant blow to the group\u2019s operational capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), in coordination with international partners, carried out an airstrike in Ceel-Bacad, Middle Shabelle region, killing over 20 Al-Shabaab militants, including a senior commander. The operation targeted Yusuf Dheg-naas, a key figure in Al-Shabaab\u2019s extortion network, who had been intimidating local communities to collect illegal taxes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":423578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437577","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437580,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437577\/revisions\/437580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}