Mogadishu: The Somali military declared on Sunday that it had pulled off a successful operation to take down multiple strongholds used by the Al Qaeda-affiliated Al Shabaab movement in the country's south.
According to Qatar News Agency, the Special Operations Forces (SOF) conducted a military operation targeting hideouts used by operatives of the movement in several areas of the Lower Shabelle Region, the military said in a statement. It added that it had successfully destroyed multiple sites.
For more than a decade, Somali forces have been battling Al Shabaab, which has carried out numerous offensives that have claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians and security personnel.