{"id":443620,"date":"2025-06-23T09:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T06:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=443620"},"modified":"2025-06-23T09:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T06:13:52","slug":"somali-national-army-inflicts-heavy-defeat-on-al-shabaab-militants-near-baidoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somali-national-army-inflicts-heavy-defeat-on-al-shabaab-militants-near-baidoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali National Army Inflicts Heavy Defeat on Al-Shabaab Militants Near Baidoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baidoa, (SONNA) \u2013 Somali National Army (SNA) forces delivered a decisive blow to Al-Shabaab militants early this morning on the outskirts of Baidoa, the interim capital of South West State.<\/p>\n<p>According to military officials on the ground, the militants launched a pre-dawn assault on the village of Burjeed, located several kilometers east of Baidoa. However, the army had prior intelligence about the attack and was fully prepared to counter it.<\/p>\n<p>The SNA ambushed the attackers, killing a large number of the militants during the confrontation. Commanders reported that the army is now pursuing the remnants of the fleeing fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Further details and footage from the operation will be released shortly, according to military sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baidoa, (SONNA) \u2013 Somali National Army (SNA) forces delivered a decisive blow to Al-Shabaab militants early this morning on the outskirts of Baidoa, the interim capital of South West State. According to military officials on the ground, the militants launched a pre-dawn assault on the village of Burjeed, located several kilometers east of Baidoa. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":423339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-443620","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\/443620","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=443620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443622,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443620\/revisions\/443622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}