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(Previous Incident Code: SOM038A)
In June 2016, the US reported that six weeks earlier it had struck a group of al Shabaab fighters, killing three.
According to the AFRICOM statement released on June 27th 2016, “U.S. forces supporting the Federal Government of Somalia, the Somali National Army and troop contributing nations to the African Union Mission in Somalia, provided defensive fires on four occasions in May, to protect U.S., SNA and AMISOM troops from imminent threats posed by the terrorist group al-Shabaab.
The most recent event was on the evening of May 13, 2016, when the U.S. provided defensive fires in Southern Somalia against nine al-Shabaab combatants, killing three. The operation was conducted after it was assessed that the terrorists were planning and preparing to conduct an imminent attack against U.S. forces.”
No other details are presently known about this event.
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Reports of the incident mention that the strike took place in southern Somalia, for which the generic coordinates are: 1.856515, 42.984748. Due to limited information and satellite imagery available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.