Somalia

More than 35 Somalis were killed and 130 were wounded during two days of fighting between Shabaab and government and African Union forces in Mogadishu. Shabaab fighters took control of Hudur, the capital of Bakool province.

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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