16 hours ago · The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump’s second term. ... and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians. Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies ...

16 hours ago · US special forces also killed a senior ISIS leader and 10 other militants in a raid on a mountain cave complex in a remote part of northern Somalia in 2023, in an operation ordered by Mr Biden.

The Islamic State – Somalia Province [note 1] or Abnaa ul-Calipha is an Islamic State affiliate that primarily operates in the mountainous areas of Puntland, and which has also claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks throughout the rest of Somalia.

16 hours ago · A strike, which also targeted Islamic State militants, was carried out by the U.S. in co-ordination with Somalia last year. It killed three members of the group, the U.S. military said.

16 hours ago · The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump’s second term.

Sep 11, 2024 · According to news reports citing several unnamed senior U.S. officials, the leader of the Islamic State’s Somali branch quietly became the global head of the Islamic State last year. This is far from confirmed. But it is clear the group is growing as a threat.

ISIS-Somalia adheres to ISIS’s strict interpretation of Islamic law and aims to extend ISIS’s self-proclaimed caliphate in Africa. ISIS-Somalia’s attacks have been sporadic, consisting largely of close-quarter assassinations and IED operations.

Jun 15, 2024 · The U.S. military targeted the global leader of ISIS in an airstrike in Somalia in May but cannot confirm if Abdulqadir Mumin is dead, three U.S. officials say.

Sep 12, 2024 · IS-Somalia emerged from the shadow of Al-Shabaab, Somalia’s main jihadist organisation, which controls swathes of the country’s south and centre. Amid the Islamic State’s lightning rise in 2014, leaders of the newly declared caliphate contacted Al-Shabaab urging it to switch its allegiance from al-Qaeda.

The Islamic State insurgency in Puntland started on 22 October 2015 after former al-Shabaab jihadist Abdul Qadir Mumin pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State, creating the "Islamic State in Somalia" (Abnaa ul-Calipha) and settling in the Galgala region, in Puntland. [5] [6] [7]In November 2024, a semi-autonomous state of Puntland declared the …