Africa
Somalia’s Shebab report foiled US special forces raid
11 years agoEDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Somali security forces personnel move in to secure the area at the scene of a car bomb explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia on May 9,2016. Islamic jihadists killed three police officers in a bomb and gun attack on a police station in the Somali capital, city authorities said. / AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB
Somalia's Al-Qaeda-aligned Shebab fighters claimed to have foiled an attack involving US special forces overnight Monday to Tuesday near the town of Toratorow, about 60 kilometres south of the capital.