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Pentagon Uses New Authority to Strike Somali Terrorist Outpost

No civilians were reported killed in the U.S. drone attack, and the Pentagon described the operation as a success

The U.S. military used the expanded authority President Donald Trump granted to the Pentagon in March to strike a terrorist outpost in Somalia on Sunday, NBC News reported.

Together with Somali partners, the Pentagon said, the Pentagon used a drone to target a command and control and logistics hub 185 miles southwest of Mogadishu — the nation’s capital — to kill multiple fighters with al-Shabab, a terrorist organization aligned with al-Qaeda.

The bombing was in response to al-Shabab’s recent attacks on the Somali military.

No civilians were reported killed in the U.S. drone attack, and the Pentagon described the operation as a success.

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