{"id":26831,"date":"2023-09-10T16:55:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T13:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.somaliland.com\/?p=26831"},"modified":"2023-09-10T16:55:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T13:55:46","slug":"u-s-denies-involvement-in-somalia-army-drone-strike-resulting-in-civilian-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somaliland.com\/news\/u-s-denies-involvement-in-somalia-army-drone-strike-resulting-in-civilian-casualties\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Denies Involvement in Somalia Army Drone Strike Resulting in Civilian Casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a recent incident in central Somalia, a drone strike reportedly claimed the lives of seven civilians, including five children and a grandmother, as Al-Shabaab members purportedly sought shelter within a residential compound, as reported by local elders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Information of Somalia has officially confirmed the elimination of senior Al-Shabaab figures in a collaborative security operation conducted in the Galgadud region&#8217;s west El-Lahelay area. However, the government has not disclosed the identity of the international partner that provided support for this operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to these developments, the United States&#8217; military command in Africa, AFRICOM, has issued a statement affirming that the Somalia national forces led a counter-terrorism mission in close proximity to El-Lahelay. This operation resulted in the demise of three Al-Shabaab leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AFRICOM clarified that U.S. forces were not physically present during the operation and did not engage in any airstrikes either during or in support of the mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the federal government of Somalia has accused Al-Shabaab of causing civilian casualties through the use of an improvised explosive device (IED), an allegation that the group has yet to respond to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent incident in central Somalia, a drone strike reportedly claimed the lives of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[207,10,143],"tags":[507,508,509],"class_list":["post-26831","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-news","category-somaliland","tag-civilians","tag-denies","tag-drone-us"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.somaliland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/download-49.jpg?fit=300%2C168&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pakwbT-6YL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somaliland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somaliland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somaliland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somaliland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somaliland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.somaliland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26833,"href":"https:\/\/www.somaliland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26831\/revisions\/26833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somaliland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somaliland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somaliland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somaliland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}