{"id":452330,"date":"2025-11-24T20:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=452330"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:13:08","slug":"somali-national-army-conducts-operation-in-galgaduud-region-kills-senior-al-shabaab-militant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somali-national-army-conducts-operation-in-galgaduud-region-kills-senior-al-shabaab-militant\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali National Army conducts operation in Galgaduud region, kills senior Al-Shabaab militant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, 24, November, 2025 -The Somali National Armed Forces (SNAF), together with local forces, last night conducted a planned operation in the Cali Heele area, 30 km west of Masagawaay district in the Galgaduud region.<\/p>\n<p>The precision operation resulted in the neutralisation of a senior Al-Shabaab terrorist commander, Ahmed Sheikh Omar Cadow Gacal, who oversaw militant units operating in Middle Shabelle. He was a key architect of attacks against civilians and played a central role in coordinating militant movements and improvised explosive device (IED) operations across Middle Shabelle, Hiraan, and Galgaduud.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Defence and the SNA Command commend the bravery and sacrifice of the forces involved, and reaffirm that counter-terrorism operations will continue across all operational fronts until the remaining terrorist networks are fully dismantled and national security is assured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, 24, November, 2025 -The Somali National Armed Forces (SNAF), together with local forces, last night conducted a planned operation in the Cali Heele area, 30 km west of Masagawaay district in the Galgaduud region. The precision operation resulted in the neutralisation of a senior Al-Shabaab terrorist commander, Ahmed Sheikh Omar Cadow Gacal, who oversaw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":445748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-452330","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\/452330","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=452330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452331,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452330\/revisions\/452331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}