WASHINGTON—A U.S. military strike has killed approximately 30 Islamist al-Shabaab terrorists near the central Somali town of Galcad, where Somalia’s military was engaged in heavy fighting, U.S. Africa Command said in a statement.
The operation, which the U.S. military described as a “collective self-defense strike,” occurred on Friday about 162 miles (260 kilometers) north of the capital Mogadishu, where Somali national forces were under attack by more than 100 al-Shabaab fighters, the statement said.
