The United States has conducted an airstrike to back up the elite Danaab troops of the Somali National Army (SNA) in Bangeeni near Jamame in Lower Jubba region of Somalia.
The airstrike was prompted by the al Shabaab who engaged the ground troops conducting operations in the region. Three al Shabaab terrorists were killed by the strike which is the third this month. A similar strike five days ago killed two Al-Shabaab militants in Qunyo Barrow in the Middle Jubba region.
The strike is the third one since the beginning of the year as Somali ground forces mount sustained offensives against the militant group killing several of them in the recent weeks and capturing villages in Lower Shabelle and Lower Jubba regions.
Since the beginning of the year, the al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab has seemingly employed new tactics that appear to reflect a rejuvenated group with a more concise and changed mode of operation inflicting large causalities in high-security locations. The allied partners in the Horn of Africa nation have been mounting offensives that are geared at clearing captured regions from the al Shabaab.
