US launches first drone strike of the year in Somalia | FDD's Long War Journal

Three Shabaab members were killed in what U.S. Africa Command described as a "collective self-defense airstrike" in the Lower Juba region. Shabaab, Al Qaeda's branch in East Africa, remains a dangerous threat.

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