/media-room/pressrelease/30271/u-s-conducts-airstrike-in-support-of-the-federal-government-of-somalia
January 3, 2018
In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. forces conducted an airstrike against al-Shabaab militants in the early morning hours of Jan. 2, 2018, approximately 50 kilometers west of the capital, killing two terrorists and destroying one vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, preventing it from being used against the people in Mogadishu.