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

WASHINGTON — 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 that “multiple operatives” had been killed in remote mountains in the country’s north.

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

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Islamic State militants (ISIS) have admitted to conducting attacks at a military base attached to the Puntland Regional Forces, leading to heavy clashes that left the group on ...

The U.S. military conducted an air strike on Saturday against ISIS operatives in Somalia, President Trump said. Why it ...

Mr. Trump said Saturday in a post on Truth Social that he ordered "precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia." ...

Trump ordered airstrikes in Somalia, targeting a senior ISIS member and his recruits, with no reported civilian casualties as of Saturday afternoon.

Donald Trump has said "many" ISIS terrorists have been killed in caves in Somalia by US airstrikes he ordered this morning.

The U.S. struck targets in the Golis mountains, and no civilians were harmed, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said..

Strikes were carried out in north Somalia, where the Puntland Security Forces is carrying out operations against ISIL.

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