"Total war" against Al-Shabaab in Somalia
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| Masjid Ali Gadud |
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Masjid Ali Gadud, a village located 120 kilometers northeast of Mogadishu, is no longer under the yoke of Al-Shabaab. This al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist group had made it a strong position, but the Somali army and its allies dislodged.
Above all, it bears witness to the growing strength of the anti-Shabab campaign. In three months, the coalition which brings together the Somali army, elite troops trained by Turkey, 22,000 soldiers from the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), as well as numerous citizen militias, supported by Turkish Bayraktar drones and others from the American army, took over nearly forty localities similar to Masjid Ali Gadud.
