MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Al-Shabaab militants launched a multi-pronged assault on Somali military positions in Afgoye on Tuesday, sparking hours of intense clashes, marking the most recent in a surge of rebel assaults because the military’s marketing campaign in opposition to the group faltered final yr, Caasimada On-line information web site reported.
The militants initially struck a navy outpost within the Haanta-Dheer space on the outskirts of Afgoye, earlier than swiftly concentrating on navy bases within the Mukayga space throughout the city, seemingly using a diversionary tactic to stop the military from deploying reinforcements.
A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a restaurant in Afgoye, killing at the very least 5 individuals, whereas African Union peacekeepers later neutralized a landmine close by, highlighting the unprecedented coordination of the assault, which marked a uncommon and brazen assault in town, particularly in broad daylight.
The militant group Al-Shabaab, by way of its media retailers, claimed duty for killing at the very least 5 troopers, though the Somali authorities and the military have but to supply any official particulars.
Because the federal authorities’s navy marketing campaign in central Somalia, supported by Turkish and US drones and hundreds of armed clan militias, stalled in late 2023, Al-Shabaab has been amassing forces on the outskirts of Mogadishu, intermittently infiltrating town’s peripheral neighborhoods and launching assaults on safety forces, but authorities have been unable to dislodge them from the encompassing areas regardless of a number of lethal offensive operations that finally proved futile.
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