US airstrikes in Somalia’s northern Puntland region have reportedly killed key figures in the Islamic State group, aka IS.

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

The U.S. military has conducted 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.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that a series of U.S. military strikes targeted a senior ISIS attack planner.

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.

The United States military on Saturday conducted air strikes on Islamic State group targets in Somalia, President Donald Trump announced.

Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s office welcomed the operation, calling it a demonstration of the strong security partnership between the two nations.