Somali Danab commandos, backed by airstrikes and heavy artillery, repelled a major Al-Shabaab assault in Middle Shabelle’s Jabad Godane area, securing a key transit corridor near Mogadishu amid rising militant activity.
Somalia’s intelligence agency says it struck a house used by senior Al-Shabaab commanders in Bu’aale, Middle Jubba, in a January 15 operation aimed at disrupting the group’s leadership network.