Kenyan Jets Hit Al-Shabaab Bases in Somalia, Kill 80
Fars News Agency - 10 hours ago

TEHRAN (FNA)- Kenyan fighter jets on Monday attacked two bases
belonging to Al -Shabaab insurgents in Somalia and killed at least 80
militants.
"The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), whose soldiers
launched a new offensive against Al-Shabaab this year, said Kenyan
planes carried out the raids on Anole and Kuday in the southern Lower
Jubba region. It did not say when they took place," Reuters reported.
"The air strikes in Anole left more than 30 Al-Shabaab fighters dead,
three technical vehicles and one Land Cruiser loaded with ammunition
destroyed," AMISOM said, adding that mre than 50 rebels were killed in
the Kuday raid.
Kenya first sent its troops into neighboring Somalia in 2011 after
several attacks inside its territory that it blamed on Al-Shabaab, and
later joined the peacekeeping force.
The militants have since carried out a string of assaults to punish
Kenya for its intervention. Al-Shabaab fighters killed at least 67
people in a raid on a Nairobi shopping mall last year.
AMISOM said Al-Shabaab had lost control of more than 10 major towns in
the new push by African troops, including soldiers from Uganda,
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Burundi and Sierra Leone.
"We will continue to up the pressure on Al-Shabaab with a view to
liberating more areas in forthcoming operations," AMISOM said.
Officials and diplomats have said towns cleared of Al-Shabaab were in
a dire state, with food stocks emptied and largely abandoned by their
inhabitants, creating what one envoy described as "ghost towns".
They said Al-Shabaab still controls tracts of countryside, making it
difficult for supplies to be moved to the towns.
Somalia's government is struggling to impose order since the AU
peacekeepers, backed by Somali troops, drove Al-Shabaab out of the
capital Mogadishu in 2011.
More than two decades of conflict have left Somalia in ruins, while
Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab has continued guerrilla-style attacks and
suicide bombings.
Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for last week's attack on the Kenyan
coastal town of Mpeketoni that killed about 65 people, although Kenyan
President Uhuru Kenyatta dismissed its account and blamed local
politicians for that.
In a separate incident, an Al-Shabaab spokesman said the group had
attacked Kenyan troops near the border with Kenya on Monday morning
and had burned four trucks, killing those inside.
In response, Kenya's defense forces denied such a fight.
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