Trump says he ordered an airstrike on the Islamic State in Somalia

Donald Trump says he ordered a military airstrike on the planner and others of the organization’s planner and others in Somalia.

Trump posted on social media, “These killers, which we were found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our colleagues.”

“Strike destroyed the caves in which they live, and in any way, killed many terrorists, harming the citizens.”

Trump did not name anyone targeted in the strike.

He ended the post: “The message of ISIS and all others who will attack Americans is” We will find you, and we will kill you! ” ,

In a statement, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said “Our initial assessment is that many operators were killed in the air strike and no citizen was harmed”.

He said the attack “the ability to” and more “the ability to” plot and operate terrorist attacks “and” sends a clear signal that the United States is always ready to find and finish terrorists “, he said.

In the 2010s, especially in Syria and Iraq there is rose to international prominence, but now its presence is mainly limited to parts of Africa.

The Somali branch was formed in 2015 by a group of convicts of the al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabab group-the largest jihadi group in Aomalia.

Somalia is notorious to remove local people and mainly on small scale, sporadic attacks, According to the US Office of Director of National Intelligence,