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October 17, 2018

Somalia: Pentagon Claims U.S. Drone Strike Kills 60 Al-Shabab Fighters
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In Somalia, an airstrike from an unmanned U.S. drone has killed 60
people near a coastal town northeast of Mogadishu-the deadliest U.S.
attack on Somalia in the last year. The Pentagon says all of the dead
were al-Shabab fighters, though the claim could not be independently
verified. The U.S. has conducted at least 27 airstrikes on Somalia so
far this year, and the Pentagon has some 500 troops in Somalia.


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