The United States used fighter jets to conduct an airstrike against Islamic State targets in Somalia on Saturday, according to U.S. officials.

The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump's second term. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday that the strikes by U.

The attack is the largest overseas military operation by the second Trump administration so far, killing "multiple" ISIS members.

The US president said he had ordered airstrikes on the so-called IS group targets in Somalia on Saturday. View on euronews

Donald Trump says he ordered military air strikes on a senior attack planner and others from the Islamic State (IS) group in Somalia. "These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies," Trump posted on social media.

President Donald Trump of the United States on Saturday ordered military airstrikes on a senior member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, who

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that “multiple operatives” had been killed in remote mountains in the country’s north.

PALM BEACH, United States - US forces carried out airstrikes in Somalia on Feb 1 targeting a senior Islamic State attack planner and other members of the militant group, killing many of them, President Donald Trump said.

The US military conducted airstrikes targeting Islamic State (IS) operatives in Somalia, marking the first such operation during US President Trump's second term.