Taylor Palmer were training with Somalia’s Danab Brigade as part of ... operations against violent extremist organizations. The U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa employs the 2nd ...

In testimony to Congress in March 2021, then-head of AFRICOM, Army Gen. Stephen Townsend called the rotations of U.S. troops into Somalia “not effective.” However, 18 months after the Trump ...

There have been at least 282 U.S. counterterrorism operations in Somalia, including drone strikes ... time and money training the Somali National Army, assisting in surveillance and drone strike ...

The U.S. military announced that airstrikes ... The strikes were made at the request of the Federal Government of Somalia in support of Somali National Army forces, with the first strike killing ...

Somalia’s government has increasingly turned to Turkey to repel al-Shabab, as America’s diminished focus on Africa scrambles ...

Joint US-Somalia air strikes and combat killed dozens ... after they attempted to attack an army base there, the ministry said. "Acting on intelligence, the forces engaged the militants resulting ...

The U.S. military says it is investigating what caused an army drone to crash in southern Somalia this week. The military's Africa Command, known as AFRICOM, confirmed the incident in a post ...

The U.S. currently has about 500 military personnel stationed in Somalia that provide aerial ... Somali and African Union forces. The U.S. army has maintained an intermittent military presence ...

An investigation has been launched to determine why the U.S. Army-operated MQ-1C Gray Eagle ... AFRICOM troops have been in Somalia on a regular basis for many years to help local forces involved ...

The U.S. military is backing off its usual talk of good governance and countering underlying causes of African insurgencies.