Somalia al-Shabab: US drone strike targets militant chief

The US military says it has targeted a vehicle carrying three al-Shabab militants in a drone strike in Somalia. A Pentagon spokesman named the main target as Hassan Ali Dhoore, accused of organising recent bomb attacks in which US personnel were killed. US officials say they are still assessing the results of the strike near […]

The US military says it has targeted a vehicle carrying three al-Shabab militants in a drone strike in Somalia.
A Pentagon spokesman named the main target as Hassan Ali Dhoore, accused of organising recent bomb attacks in which US personnel were killed.
US officials say they are still assessing the results of the strike near Jilib, which is close to the border with Kenya.
The Pentagon said the US had been watching Dhoore, a member of the militant group’s security and intelligence wing who was involved in planning attacks in Mogadishu, for some time.