Somalia

Six were wounded, including 5 police, after a grenade attack in Mogadishu. Ugandan troops have been cleared to deploy to Mogadishu. A US warship is moving to intercept a UN WFP vessel hijacked off the coast of Puntland.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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