Six Al Shabaab terrorists said killed in US drone strikes

DEBKAfile was founded by a team of journalists in June 2000 as an independent Internet Web site, providing an intelligence and security news service. September 13, 2017, 7:58 PM (IDT)

The US military said Wednesday that it killed six fighters from the Al Shabaab terrorist group on Wednesday in three drone strikes on targets about 260km south of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. The US Africa Command did not provide any further details on the fighters or the location of the strikes.

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