{"id":446452,"date":"2025-08-08T22:23:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=446452"},"modified":"2025-08-08T22:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:23:01","slug":"defence-minister-confirms-120-al-shabaab-militants-killed-in-bariire-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/defence-minister-confirms-120-al-shabaab-militants-killed-in-bariire-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Minister Confirms 120 Al-Shabaab Militants Killed in Bariire Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 Somali National Armed Forces (SNA) celebrated their recent victory at the Bariire Bridge, where they overpowered Al-Shabaab militants and seized a large cache of weapons and military equipment.<\/p>\n<p>In a press briefing held this evening, Minister of Defence Ahmed Moalim Fiqi confirmed that 120 Al-Shabaab militants were killed during the offensive in Bariire, with several others captured alive. He noted that many of the militants abandoned their weapons and fled the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister added that alongside weapons recovery, forces are also clearing the bodies of militants scattered across the town. He described Bariire as a strategic location and noted that its liberation marks an important junction in the Federal Government\u2019s ongoing operations in the Lower Shabelle region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 Somali National Armed Forces (SNA) celebrated their recent victory at the Bariire Bridge, where they overpowered Al-Shabaab militants and seized a large cache of weapons and military equipment. In a press briefing held this evening, Minister of Defence Ahmed Moalim Fiqi confirmed that 120 Al-Shabaab militants were killed during the offensive in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":446453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-446452","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\/446452","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=446452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446454,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446452\/revisions\/446454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}