U.S. military strikes conducted against Islamic State in Somalia
President Donald Trump authorized and directed U.S. military strikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia. These attacks were coordinated with the Somalian government. The strikes killed multiple operatives in an operation that didn’t see civilians get harmed. The strikes centered on caves where these terrorists were at.
From PBS:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday that the strikes by U.S. Africa Command were directed by Trump and coordinated with Somalia’s government.
An initial assessment by the Pentagon indicated that “multiple” operatives were killed. The Pentagon said it assessed that no civilians were harmed in the strikes.
Trump, in a post on social media, said a senior IS planner and recruits were targeted in the operation.
“The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians. Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did!” Trump said. “The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that “WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!”
Trump did not identify the IS planner or say whether that person was killed in the strike. White House officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Pentagon’s counterterrorism strategy in Africa has been strained as two key partners, Chad and Niger, ousted U.S. forces last year and took over key bases that the U.S. military had used to train and conduct missions against terrorist groups across the Sahel, the vast arid expanse south of the Sahara Desert.
Additional Reading:
PBS Journalist. (2025, February 1). U.S. military strikes Islamic State operatives in Somalia for the first time in Trump’s new term. PBS. Link.
Category: GWOT, Terror War
I could well be wrong, but I don’t see much of anything good being involved in Somalia again. Other than pirate abatement, what the heck are we going to gain from it?
The only thing we should send to Somalia is high explosives, just like this.. No way we should put or people at risk there.
In other news, Somalia has a government. Color me surprised!
Maybe this one won’t cave….
Kill enough of them and they’ll quit fighting…or not. The more we kill “over there” the less we have to kill “over here”. A few less to worry about so there is that. Makes a difference when one has a true Commander In Chief and a Real Warrior as SecDef.
Speaking of Somalia, when are we going to send back those (koff!) refugee (koff!) Somalis that were brought over by the (koff!) Catholic charity (koff!) NGOs?
Lewiston Maine has been referred to as “little Somalia” for
well over a decade now. Traditional Catholic farming area is
now a drug and crime infested shithole.
“as goes Maine so goes the country”
God, I hope not.
Beautiful river running through there, picturesque area, too.
Nearby town of Greene was my family roots.
Catholic potato farmers.
Yes, beautiful landscape.
Probably just an open sewer now.. You can take the somali out of the shithole, but ya cant take the shithole out of the somali..
Same thing happened to my home town of St Cloud, MN. At the end of the 80s it was still a peaceful, low crime city of around 40,000. By 1999 it had transformed into a gang infested, crime ridden, dangerous place to raise children, with a university steeped in the standard academic forest of minority studies, women’s studies, LGBTQ studies, and a human relations department that bent over backwards to accommodate local criminals who talked about “Equality against the PO-lees.”
All brought to us by Catholic Charities.
Now you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a Somali, or gang banger.
Can we send that brother F@$ker Omar back as well?
Plenty of muslim Somalian terrorists in Maine and Minneapolis
Greely Colorado as well.
Idiots up there can’t understand why cooking the family dinner with an open fire on the living room floor is a bad idea, and often results in burning down the house…
I read somewhere that the average IQ from that part of the world is on the low end of room temp.. maybe someone else has seen that / has the link..