{"id":5134,"date":"2017-06-11T20:17:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T20:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2017-06-11T20:24:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T20:24:02","slug":"us-military-carries-out-first-offensive-airstrike-against-al-shabab-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/us-military-carries-out-first-offensive-airstrike-against-al-shabab-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"US military carries out first offensive airstrike against Al-Shabab in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>US airstrike kills 8 Islamic extremists in Somalia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US and Somali forces carried out a joint attack against an al-Shabab command post on Sunday, destroying one of the jihadi group&#8217;s primary training and command centers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least eight al-Shabab militants have been killed in the attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">U.S. forces conducted a strike operation against al-Shabab in Somalia today, approximately 185 miles southwest of Mogadishu, according to a <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a id=\"anch_195\" style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Releases\/News-Release-View\/Article\/1210358\/pentagon-statement-on-somalia-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a><\/span> issued by chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was the U.S. military&#8217;s first offensive airstrike against the jihadist fundamentalist group al-Shabaab in Somalia, targeting the group under the new authorities given by the Trump administration in March that allows offensive airstrikes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;On June 11, at approximately 2 a.m. eastern daylight time, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Article\/Article\/1210361\/us-strike-targets-al-shabab-in-somalia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Defense conducted<\/a> a strike operation against al-Shabaab in Somalia,&#8221; said Dana White, the Pentagon&#8217;s chief spokesperson in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The operation occurred approximately 185 miles southwest of Mogadishu,&#8221; White said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The U.S. conducted this operation in coordination with its regional partners as a direct response to al-Shabaab actions, including recent attacks on Somali forces,&#8221; White said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US airstrike kills 8 Islamic extremists in Somalia US and Somali forces carried out a joint attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,1,125],"tags":[355,83,7],"class_list":["post-5134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news","category-united-states","tag-africa","tag-somalia","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/alshabab-somalia.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1kO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5138,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions\/5138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}