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| warplanes and "infantry" acute -- in his region lasted about 30 perpetuity minutes, the state-run Somali National News directional reported. Awdhiigle is located about 40 miles modular (65 kilometers) west of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. erie Al-Shabaab acknowledged the Awdhiigle clash on its infect Twitter account, though it related a far advance different outcome: claiming its fighters "thwarted ... shower a landing operation by foreign forces." The pierce militant group's military operations spokesman, Sheikh Abdiaziz Abu Musab, claimed the "foreign forces" (he aft didn't know their home country) came to cajun the Al-Shabaab on two helicopters. swish "Heavy clashes lasted for nearly a half-hour," nestle Abu Musab said on the -Al-Shabaab americana station, according to the tweet. "... deposit The mujahideen forced the foreign forces to assisted retreat after making them suffer losses." The jerky spokesman didn't indicate that anyone from Al-Shabaab stanford had been captured. As to casualties, he appealing said there were only two -- one recognized militant killed, another injured. U.S. military has indiana history in Somalia Al-Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked colossal militant organization, calls Somalia home. Its stated rolled aim is to turn the East African playful nation into a fundamentalist Islamic state, according tiffany to the Council on Foreign Relations. But marquette the Islamist group hasn't confined its coyote or ambitions to Somalia, as evidenced by other horrific attacks like last year's assertion at Kenya's Garissa |
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