{"id":448417,"date":"2025-09-09T20:27:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=448417"},"modified":"2025-09-09T20:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:27:25","slug":"somali-security-forces-eliminate-senior-al-shabaab-leader-in-lower-shabelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somali-security-forces-eliminate-senior-al-shabaab-leader-in-lower-shabelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali Security Forces Eliminate Senior Al-Shabaab Leader in Lower Shabelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 A joint operation by the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) and international partners in Ugunji, Lower Shabelle, has killed Mohamed Abdi Dhiblaawe Afrah, a senior Al-Shabaab leader also known by multiple aliases including Khalid Dheere, Khalid Dacas, Macallin Siciid, Timo-jilac, and Mohamed Sahal.<\/p>\n<p>Dhiblaawe, identified as the mastermind behind the March 18, 2025 Ceel-gaabta junction attack targeting the President\u2019s convoy, was neutralized this afternoon in a precision strike on a Noah vehicle carrying him and another Al-Shabaab militant.<\/p>\n<p>He was also linked to several bombings and violent acts that claimed civilian lives and had been actively pursued since the Ceel-gaabta attack.<\/p>\n<p>NISA said additional details on the operation and the militant leader\u2019s activities will be released soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 A joint operation by the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) and international partners in Ugunji, Lower Shabelle, has killed Mohamed Abdi Dhiblaawe Afrah, a senior Al-Shabaab leader also known by multiple aliases including Khalid Dheere, Khalid Dacas, Macallin Siciid, Timo-jilac, and Mohamed Sahal. Dhiblaawe, identified as the mastermind behind the March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":441828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-448417","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\/448417","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=448417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448418,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448417\/revisions\/448418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}