A senior ISIL (ISIS) commander in Somalia has been captured, police and state media have said, as security forces continue a weeks-long offensive against the group. Abdirahman Shirwac Aw-Saciid, head of the group’s assassination squad,

I ordered precise military airstrikes on a senior ISIS attack planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia," Donald Trump announced on social media. He added that the strikes "killed many terrorists without causing harm to civilians.

Donald Trump claimed that ISIL targets in Somalia Were killed with no civilian casualties, but no official casualty numbers were released.

The attack is the largest overseas military operation by the second Trump administration so far, killing "multiple" ISIS members.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that “multiple operatives” had been killed in remote mountains in the country’s north.

U.S. forces carried out airstrikes in Somalia on Saturday targeting a senior Islamic State attack planner and other members of the militant group, killing many of them, President Donald Trump said.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump’s second term. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday that the strikes by U.S. Africa Command were directed by Trump and coordinated with Somalia's government.

The United States military on Saturday conducted air strikes on Islamic State group targets in Somalia, President Donald Trump announced. The government of Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region said Sunday that US military strikes in the Golis mountains had killed "key figures" in the Islamic State group.

Officials from Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region thank the US via social media, calling the operation a success