US Armed Forces strike on Al-Shabab terrorist targets in southern Somalia. According to Trend, the African Command of the US Armed Forces (AFRICOM) reported on Saturday on its official website..

" It is emphasized that the operation is currently being evaluated. “Not a single civilian was injured in the blow,” AFRICOM notes.

Earlier this year, the US has already hit targets in Somalia with ethereal aircraft. Most flights in Somalia's airspace, according to the South African edition of DefenseWeb, are made by US drones, which are based at a major US base in neighboring Djibouti.

At the same time, AFRICOM is completing the construction of the Baledogl camp in Somalia, where it is planned to deploy a group of drones. The runway built there by the Soviet military should be repaired by the end of December.

With a length of 3 km and a width of 40 m, it will allow the Baledogl camp to accept any kind of U.S. Air Force aircraft.

The Al-Shabab group created in Somalia in 2004 suffered a strategic defeat in the summer of 2011, when it was forced to leave the country's capital. Since then, she switched to guerrilla tactics of combating the country's government and its Western allies.. The total number of Al-Shabab is estimated from 3 thousand. up to 10 thousand. militants.