Trump says he ordered air strikes from the Islamic State group in Somalia

Donald Trump says he has ordered military air strikes on a senior planning attack and others in the Islamic State (IC) group in Somalia.

“These killers we found to hide in the caves threatened the United States and our allies,” Trump published on social media.

“The strikes destroyed the caves in which they lived and killed many terrorists without in any way harming civilians.”

The BBC could not immediately check the reports immediately.

Trump did not point out any of the people targeting strikes.

The president ended his post with: “The message to ISIS and everyone else who would attack Americans is that” we will find you and we will kill you! “

In a statement, Defense Minister Pete Heges said that “our initial assessment is that many operatives were killed in air strikes and no civilian was harmed.”

Heget said that strikes “worsen the” ability of the IP “to think and conduct terrorist attacks” and “sends a clear signal that the United States is always ready to find and remove terrorists.”

Trump also threw a spending on the former administration, saying the US military has turned to this particular one has been planning for years, but blamed Joe Biden “and his people” that they did not act fast enough “to do the job. I did it. ! ”

The killed forces of the United States is leader Bilal Al-Sudani and 10 of his operatives in a remote mountain cave in North Somalia in 2023, In an operation ordered by Biden.

Rises to international fame in 2010, especially in Syria and Iraq, but now its presence is limited mainly to parts of Africa.

The Somali branch of the IS was formed in 2015 by a group of defects from the al-Qaeda group, linked to al-Shabab-most jihadist group in Somalia.

Is in Somalia is known for blackmailing locals and mainly performs small, sporadic attacks, According to the US Director of National Intelligence DirectorS