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The Pentagon on Tuesday said 12 al Shabaab militants were killed in U.S. airstrikes in Somalia this week.
The U.S. military conducted two airstrikes late Monday evening and early Tuesday morning on an al-Shabaab camp in southern Somalia due to an “imminent threat” against U.S. troops in Somalia, said Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis at a news briefing.
Further details about the strikes were not available at the moment.
Despite its involvement in assisting the Somalian government and African Union forces in battling al-Shabaab, an extremist group responsible for dozens of terror attacks in east Africa, particularly Kenya, the U.S. military so far was not launching regular airstrikes against the group in Somalia.
In March, the U.S. military conducted an airstrike against a training camp of the group about 193 km north of Mogadishu, the largest city in Somalia, killing about 150 al-Shabaab fighters.
