Somalia

Shabaab took control of several villages in the Galgudud region in central Somalia. Shabaab rejected Hizbul Islam’s call to unite. The state minister for defense and two other ministers dodged an IED attack in Mogadishu that killed three civilians.

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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