NISA Special Operations at a ceremony transferring over to the Somali police forces (Sept. 25, 2018). Via Halbeeg
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On Monday November 11th, Somali special forces dealt a blow to Al-Shabaab, a Sunni jihadist group aligned with Al-Qaeda. This comes amid a spat of attacks carried out by Al-Shabaab to denigrate the Somali Federal Government’s ability to provide security for civilians. Many attacks are targeted in Mogadishu, as it is where the Federal Government of Somalia is located and is the largest city in the country with a little over 2 million inhabitants. Furthermore, since 2023 Al-Shabaab has recaptured large swathes of territory in central Somalia signaling that the rank-and-file Somali troops and allied clan militias are ineffective at holding ground captured by Somali special operations sometimes in conjunction with US forces.
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