{"id":37974,"date":"2025-02-02T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37974"},"modified":"2025-02-02T20:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T02:03:15","slug":"media-us-airstrikes-in-somalia-kill-at-least-48-isis-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37974","title":{"rendered":"Media: US airstrikes in Somalia kill at least 48 ISIS terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Moscow, February 2 (Sputnik) &#8211; The United States carried out air strikes on terrorist targets in Somalia, killing at least 48 Islamic State militants, Garowe Online news website reported, citing Somali authorities.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">On the 1st, US President Donald Trump said that he had ordered airstrikes on targets in Somalia where terrorists were located, and that these attacks did not cause civilian injuries. Trump said that the attacks resulted in the elimination of &#8220;many terrorists&#8221; but no civilians were harmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The message stated: &#8220;The airstrike killed 48 ISIS members, including 5 commanders and 12 foreigners, and Puntland security forces successfully cleared the area this morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon previously said U.S. strikes on terrorist targets in Somalia were coordinated with the country&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The New York Times previously reported that the airstrikes against Islamic State targets in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20250201\/1063918871.html\">Somalia<\/a>&nbsp;were the first major U.S. action during Trump&#8217;s second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20250203\/1063926127.html\">sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, February 2 (Sputnik) &#8211; The United States carried out air strikes on terrorist targets in Somalia, killing at least 48 Islamic State militants, Garowe Online news website reported, citing Somali authorities. On the 1st, US President Donald Trump said that he had ordered airstrikes on targets in Somalia where terrorists were located, and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[4393,10452,10442],"class_list":["post-37974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-airstrikes","tag-somalia","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37977,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37974\/revisions\/37977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}