Category Somalia
Pentagon Issues Statement On Air Strike On Somalia-Based & al-Qaeda-Linked al Shabaab Group
Pentagon Statement on Somalia Strike 06/11/2017 08:53 AM CDT IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. NR-219-17 June 11, 2017 Pentagon Statement on Somalia Strike Pentagon Chief Spokesperson Dana W. White provided the following: On June 11, at approximately 2 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the Department of Defense conducted a strike operation against al-Shabaab in Somalia. The operation occurred […]
Manchester Bomb Suspect Said To Have Had Ties To al Qaeda, Terrorism Training Abroad
Manchester Bomb Suspect Said To Have Had Ties To al Qaeda, Terrorism Training Abroad By Alexander Smith, www.nbcnews.com View Original May 23rd, 2017 MANCHESTER, England — Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old British man believed to have killed 22 people in a suicide-bomb attack, had ties to al Qaeda and had received terrorist training abroad, a U.S. intelligence official told […]
Osama bin Laden’s Files: AQIM Commander Recommended Training Boko Haram’s Members
Osama bin Laden’s Files: AQIM Commander Recommended Training Boko Haram’s Members By Thomas Joscelyn, www.longwarjournal.org View Original February 18th, 2017 On Jan. 19, the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released 49 documents recovered in Osama bin Laden’s compound. To date, only a few hundred documents from bin Laden’s massive cache have been declassified. Still, the […]
American Hybrid Warfare: Somalia As A Case Study In The Real American Way Of War In 2016
American Hybrid Warfare: Somalia As A Case Study In The Real American Way Of War In 2016 lawfareblog.com By Robert Chesney Monday, October 17, 2016, 7:06 AM The front page of the New York Times carried a story this Sunday that would have commanded the news cycle many years ago. It describes in previously-unappreciated detail the complex nature and large […]
Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook On U.S. Airstrike In Somalia
You are subscribed to News Releases for U.S. Department of Defense. This information has recently been updated, and is now available. Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook on U.S. Airstrike in Somalia 06/01/2016 11:57 AM CDT IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. NR-190-16 Jun. 1, 2016 Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook on U.S. Airstrike […]
Boko Haram And ISIS Are Collaborating More, U.S. Military Says
Excerpt: The exchange highlighted a central quandary of President Obama’s efforts to rein in the spread of Islamic extremism in Africa. In recent years, the continent has increasingly become a battleground in the West’s war against militant Islam. Administration officials insist that the increased influence of groups like Boko Haram, and now the Islamic State, […]
Why The United States Needs AFRICOM
Excerpt: Africa is mosaic of nations crisscrossed with conflicts. It is home to extraordinary natural resources and an exploding, often unruly youth population. Many nations lack economic freedom, a strong civil society and adequate public safety. That mixture makes for a wicked cocktail. Moreover, China, Russia and India have so dramatically increased their involvement on […]
U.S. Strikes Kill 150 Shabab Fighters in Somalia, Officials Say
Excerpt: They were bombed during what United States officials said they believed was a graduation ceremony, and the warplanes dropped a number of precision-guided bombs and missiles on them. “They were standing outdoors in formation,” one official said. Bet we will not see any more of such formations. U.S. Strikes Kill 150 Shabab Fighters […]
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