It’s the first U.S. strike in Somalia under the second Trump administration, but follows similar strikes in the country last year under then-president Joe Biden.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he ordered military airstrikes on Saturday targeting a senior Islamic State attack planner and others from the organization in Somalia. "These killers, who we found hiding in caves,

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