US Says It Kills 2 Al Shabaab Terrorists in Somalia Airstrike

US Says It Kills 2 Al Shabaab Terrorists in Somalia Airstrike
Somali government soldiers on a Military vehicle are seen outside the SYL hotel in Mogadishu on Dec. 11, 2019. Abdirazak Hussein Farah/AFP via Getty Images
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NAIROBI—The U.S. military said it had killed two fighters from the al Shabaab terrorist group in an airstrike in a remote part of Somalia’s southern Jubaland state on Sunday.

The United States has been carrying out air strikes in Somalia to try to defeat al Shabaab, an al Qaeda franchise seeking to implement its interpretation of Islamic law and overthrow the country’s Western-backed central government.