Following the strikes, the Trump administration issued a statement in which they said that the strikes were against the operatives of the Islamic State in Northern Somalia. This was the first major Am

It’s the first U.S. strike in Somalia under the second Trump administration, but follows similar strikes in the country last year under then-president Joe Biden.

The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump’s second term.