This photo provided by U.S. Africa Command. The U.S. military conducts coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. The U.S. military said it conducted airstrikes in Somalia on Saturday, hitting targets associated with the Islamic State. A statement from United States Africa Command said they believe several ISIS operatives were killed in the attack, and that it is believed no civilians were harmed. President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also commented on the strikes.

Fighters from the USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea carried out the strikes. The United States used manned fighter jets to conduct an airstrike against Islamic State targets in Somalia on Saturday, three U.S. officials told ABC News on Saturday. President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed the airstrike, claiming no civilians were harmed in the attack. No details were released about the targets aside from the president labeling the target as a "Senior ISIS Attack Planner." Hegseth said the airstrikes were carried out "at President...

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he ordered military strikes that killed several ISIS militants in Somalia. “These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies. The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians,” Trump said in the message posted to X, formerly called Twitter. In a statement, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirmed the strikes targeting ISIS-Somalia operatives in the Golis mountains occurred in coordination with the Somali government.

In a post on social media, President Donald Trump announced air strikes that were conducted Saturday in Somalia against ISIS targets, which he said “killed many terrorists without in any way harming civilians.” U.S.

Jan 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it killed a senior operative of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group in an airstrike in northwest Syria on Thursday. The airstrike, part of an ongoing effort to disrupt and degrade militant groups in the region, resulted in the death of Muhammad Salah al-Za'bir of the Hurras al-Din group, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement.