Air strikes against terrorist militia : the U.S. military kills 62 militants in Somalia

In the case of air the U.S. attacks armed forces in Somalia have been killed, according to military figures, at least 62 fighters of the Islamist terrorist militia Al-Shabaab. In four bombings in the vicinity of the place Gandarshe to the South of the capital, Mogadishu, were killed on Saturday, 34 fighters, two air 28 further, as the U.S. military announced on Monday punches on Sunday in the same area. There is no civilian had been injured people or killed.

"The Africa command and our Somali partners have carried out these attacks, to terrorists, to hold, to use remote areas as places of refuge, to plan out future attacks, control, inspire or recruit people for it," said the Africa command of the US armed forces.

In a press release on Saturday had spoken to the armed forces, first of the eight dead as a result of an air attack in Gandarshe. The U.S. military supported the Somali government in the fight against the Sunni terrorist organization Al-Shabaab. The Al-Qaeda allied fundamentalist fight in the unstable country on the Horn of Africa since the years of the supremacy. This year, the U.S. military carried out dozens of air strikes.

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