4 days ago · 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. ... and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians. Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies ...

The Islamic State – Somalia Province [note 1] or Abnaa ul-Calipha is an affiliate of the Islamic State that primarily operates in the mountainous regions of Puntland, northern Somalia, and has claimed responsibility for multiple attacks across the country.

1 hour ago · In a statement, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the airstrikes were undertaken in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia and targeted ISIS-Somalia operatives in the Golis mountains. According to the Pentagon’s assessment, multiple ISIS operatives were killed and no civilians were harmed.

4 days ago · In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted airstrikes against ISIS-Somalia on Feb. 1, 2025. The command’s initial assessment is that multiple ISIS-Somalia operatives were killed in the airstrikes and no civilians were harmed. U.S. Africa Command takes great measures to prevent civilian harm.

3 days ago · The government of Somalia’s semiautonomous Puntland region says military strikes by the United States in the Golis Mountains killed “key figures” of the ISIL (ISIS) group.

3 days ago · A separate statement from U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the strikes targeted an area in Somalia's Golis mountains, and "further degrades ISIS's ability to plot and conduct terrorist ...

3 days ago · American officials said that he was operating in Somalia but that his influence extended across Africa, into Europe and even to the ISIS branch in Afghanistan that carried out the August 2021 ...

4 days ago · A strike, which also targeted Islamic State militants, was carried out by the U.S. in co-ordination with Somalia last year. It killed three members of the group, the U.S. military said.

According to news reports citing several unnamed senior U.S. officials, the leader of the Islamic State’s Somali branch quietly became the global head of the Islamic State last year. This is far from confirmed. But it is clear the group is growing as a threat.

ISIS-Somalia adheres to ISIS’s strict interpretation of Islamic law and aims to extend ISIS’s self-proclaimed caliphate in Africa. ISIS-Somalia’s attacks have been sporadic, consisting largely of close-quarter assassinations and IED operations.