More than 40 al-Shabaab terrorists have been killed in an operation in the Middle Shabelle region, the Somali military the last week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The operation was launched In response to Tuesday\u2019s deadly attack on a military base in Hawadley, some 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of the capital Mogadishu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Somalia has been plagued by insecurity for years, with al-Shabaab and ISIS being among the main threats. There were at least 1,518 civilian casualties \u2013 651 killed and 867 injured \u2013 in terror attacks in Somalia in 2018, followed by 1,459 \u2013 591 killed and 868 injured \u2013 in 2019, according to UN estimates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
More than 40 al-Shabaab terrorists have been killed in an operation in the Middle Shabelle region, the Somali military the last week. The operation was launched In response to Tuesday\u2019s deadly attack on a military base in Hawadley, some 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of the capital Mogadishu. Somalia has been plagued by insecurity for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":89843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n