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

Many people in Somaliland are convinced that the United States, under the incoming presidency of Donald Trump, is poised to ...

The military spokesperson ... He added that the chopper was flying from Mogadishu to Baledogle Airfield, about 90 km northwest of the Somali capital. Uganda is one of the troop-contributing ...

which means "Lightning" and has proved more effective than the regular Somali army at rooting out al-Shabab. The Americans have an airbase at Baledogle, north-west of Mogadishu, and conduct ...