US conducts airstrike against Al Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia

U.S. forces conducted an airstrike against the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabab implicit the play successful Somalia.

The airstrike by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) targeted an country astir 40 miles northwest of Kismayo, Somalia, wherever al-Shabab was reportedly located.

According to a property merchandise from AFRICOM, al-Shabab "has proven some its volition and capableness to onslaught U.S. forces."

"AFRICOM, alongside the Federal Government of Somalia and Somali Armed Forces, continues to instrumentality enactment to degrade al-Shabab’s quality to program and behaviour attacks that endanger the U.S. homeland, our forces, and our citizens abroad," the property merchandise read.

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U.S. forces conducted an airstrike against the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabab implicit the play successful Somalia. (Abukar Mohamed Muhudin/Anadolu via Getty Images)

No further details astir units and assets were released to guarantee continued information of operations.

The East African state of Somalia has been wracked for decades by attacks and insurgency from Islamist terrorists, some from ISIS and al-Shabab. 

U.S. Africa Command reported successful April that it had carried retired 4 airstrikes: 3 against ISIS terrorists and 1 against al-Shabab. At slightest 1 of these strikes, the bid stated, was against aggregate targets.

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The airstrike by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) targeted an country astir 40 miles northwest of Kismayo, Somalia, wherever al-Shabab was reportedly located. (REUTERS/Feisal Omar)

For years, the U.S. has helped Somali forces with airstrikes and different enactment against the al-Shabab extremist group.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, successful March, drafted a missive to Trump offering the U.S. exclusive entree to aerial bases and seaports, which reignited tensions betwixt the authorities of Somalia and the breakaway portion of Somaliland, the Associated Press reported.

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The East African state of Somalia has been wracked for decades by attacks and insurgency from Islamist terrorists, some from ISIS and al-Shabab. (AP)

In the letter, Somalia offered "exclusive operational control" implicit the Berbera and Baledogle aerial bases and the ports of Berbera and Bosaso to "bolster American engagement successful the region."

One of the ports, Berbera, is successful a cardinal metropolis located successful Somaliland, whose agelong assertion arsenic an autarkic authorities has not received planetary recognition.

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Somaliland, a erstwhile British protectorate, declared independency from Somalia successful 1991 aft the illness of the cardinal government. It maintains its ain government, information forces and currency and has held elections.

Fox News Digital’s Paul Tilsley and The Associated Press contributed to this report.