Trump says he ordered air strikes on Islamic State group in Somalia

Donald Trump says he ordered navy air strikes on a senior assault planner and others from the Islamic State (IS) group in Somalia.

“These killers, who we discovered hiding in caves, threatened america and our Allies,” Trump posted on social media.

“The strikes destroyed the caves they stay in, and killed many terrorists with out, in any manner, harming civilians.”

The PJDM couldn’t instantly independently confirm the experiences.

Trump didn’t identify any of the individuals focused in strikes.

The president ended his submit with: “The message to ISIS and all others who would assault People is that “WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!”

In a press release, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth mentioned “our preliminary evaluation is that a number of operatives have been killed within the airstrikes and no civilians have been harmed”.

Hegseth mentioned the strikes “additional degrade” the flexibility of IS “to plot and conduct terrorist assaults” and “sends a transparent sign that america all the time stands prepared to seek out and get rid of terrorists”.

Trump additionally took a swipe on the former administration, stating the US navy had focused this specific IS planner for years, however accused Joe Biden “and his cronies” of not performing rapidly sufficient “to get the job accomplished. I did!”

US forces killed IS chief, Bilal al-Sudani, and 10 of his operatives in a distant mountainous collapse northern Somalia in 2023, in an operation ordered by Biden.

IS rose to worldwide prominence within the 2010s, significantly in Syria and Iraq, however now its presence is principally restricted to elements of Africa.

The Somali department of IS was shaped in 2015 by a bunch of defectors from the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabab group – the biggest jihadist group in Somalia.

IS in Somalia is infamous for extorting locals and primarily carries out small-scale, sporadic assaults, according to the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence.