US Launches Three Days of Airstrikes in Somalia’s Puntland Region
US Africa Command said in a press release on Friday that its forces launched airstrikes against the ISIS affiliate in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region as the Trump administration continues its heavy air war in the country.
AFRICOM said that it launched airstrikes on August 31, September 1, and September 2 against targets in the Golis Mountains region, approximately 30 miles southeast of the Gulf of Aden port city of Bossaso.
On September 3, US-backed Puntland forces posted photos of the bodies of alleged ISIS fighters they said were killed in operations conducted over the last 72 hours. The Puntland Counter-Terrorism Operations claimed in a post on Telegram that “approximately 15 ISIS terrorists” were killed in the US-backed assault.
