Overview

• President Donald Trump ordered precision airstrikes in Somalia targeting a senior ISIS attack planner and other operatives in the Golis Mountains.
• The Pentagon reports that multiple ISIS operatives were killed, with no civilian casualties, per initial assessments by U.S. Africa Command
• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth emphasized the operation’s goal of degrading ISIS’s ability to plan and execute attacks against the U.S. and its allies.
• The Somali government collaborated in the operation, with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud expressing gratitude for U.S. counterterrorism support.
• This marks the first publicly announced U.S. airstrike in Africa during Trump’s second term, following similar operations in Syria earlier this week.