BOSAOS (SMN) – ISIS fighters have reportedly attacked a Puntland army base, signaling a shift in guerrilla ways after dropping direct battles.
The militants raided the army base within the Xabley Mountains, Dhaban Xoogle, Bari area, sparking an trade of gunfire adopted by mortar shelling.
Puntland officers confirmed their forces repelled the assault, killing a number of militants.
Stories counsel each side suffered casualties, with the preventing lasting for hours.
The scenario is steady, with Puntland forces in command of the battlegrounds. They’ve pushed ISIS out of a number of areas, together with Cali Miskaad.
Puntland forces took key positions, together with caves utilized by ISIS fighters as hideouts. Officers vow to take away ISIS from the area, together with Cali Miskaad.
Since December, Puntland has been preventing militants within the rugged highlands, the place that they had main bases and caves to cover.
ISIL stays a lot smaller in quantity in comparison with the al-Qaeda-linked group, Al-Shabaab, which controls giant components of Somalia.
The group’s fighters are estimated to be 1,500, principally scattered within the Al-Maskad area, in line with safety specialists
