{"id":626,"date":"2017-04-18T16:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T16:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2017-04-18T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T16:07:48","slug":"somalia-u-s-denies-reports-of-airstrikes-in-somalia-last-week-africa-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2017\/04\/18\/somalia-u-s-denies-reports-of-airstrikes-in-somalia-last-week-africa-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: U.S. Denies Reports of Airstrikes in Somalia Last Week &#8211; Africa Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US military did not conduct any counterterrorism strikes in southwest Somalia on April 14 contrary to what the media has reported, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said in a release on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The US military did not conduct any kind of kinetic action in that area during the timeframe referenced,&#8221; the release stated. &#8220;The most recent US strike in Somalia was conducted in January 2017.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In March, President Donald Trump gave the green light to a Department of Defense request to increase the number of artillery and air strikes in Somalia against the al-Shabaab terror group (outlawed in Russia).<\/p>\n<p>Somalia has been experiencing violence since the country devolved into civil war in the early 1990s. The state&#8217;s collapse provided a breeding ground for warlords, pirates and the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabaab.<\/p>\n<p>The terror group has been staging numerous attacks in Somalia in an attempt to create an Islamic state ruled by Sharia law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military did not conduct any counterterrorism strikes in southwest Somalia on April 14 contrary to what the media has reported, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said in a release on Monday. &#8220;The US military did not conduct any kind of kinetic action in that area during the timeframe referenced,&#8221; the release stated. &#8220;The most recent US strike in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2017\/04\/18\/somalia-u-s-denies-reports-of-airstrikes-in-somalia-last-week-africa-command\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}