{"id":459291,"date":"2026-04-22T10:52:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=459291"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:52:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:52:56","slug":"somalia-security-forces-kill-33-al-shabaab-militants-in-operation-in-middle-shabelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somalia-security-forces-kill-33-al-shabaab-militants-in-operation-in-middle-shabelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia Security Forces Kill 33 Al-Shabaab Militants in Operation in Middle Shabelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu(SONNA)-Somali security forces, in coordination with international partners, carried out a series of planned military operations on Tuesday in the Guulane area of the Middle Shabelle region, killing at least 33 Al-Shabaab militants and destroying key militant infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"202\">The operation, led by <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">National Intelligence and Security Agency<\/span><\/span> (NISA) with international partners, targeted sites where <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Al-Shabaab<\/span><\/span> militants were regrouping and planning attacks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"204\" data-end=\"437\">In the first strike, forces hit a house hosting senior operatives, killing at least 15 militants and destroying the site. Follow-up operations in Guulane killed more than 18 fighters and destroyed an armed vehicle used for transport.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"439\" data-end=\"611\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Officials said the action was based on intelligence that about 90 militants had gathered to launch attacks, adding the operation significantly reduced the immediate threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu(SONNA)-Somali security forces, in coordination with international partners, carried out a series of planned military operations on Tuesday in the Guulane area of the Middle Shabelle region, killing at least 33 Al-Shabaab militants and destroying key militant infrastructure. The operation, led by National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) with international partners, targeted sites where Al-Shabaab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":445491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-459291","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\/459291","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459292,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459291\/revisions\/459292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}