{"id":109502,"date":"2021-01-18T10:01:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T02:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=109502"},"modified":"2021-01-18T10:01:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T02:01:56","slug":"al-shabaab-kills-us-trained-soldiers-in-ambush-in-southern-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=109502","title":{"rendered":"Al-Shabaab kills US-trained soldiers in ambush in southern Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Al-Shabaab-kills-US-trained-soldiers-in-ambush-in-southern-Somalia-1156997?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/923\/92336335.295.jpg\" alt=\"The convoy was first hit by a massive roadside bomb\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><strong><em>The convoy was first hit by a massive roadside bomb<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MOGADISHU, Jan 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Terrorists killed at least five soldiers, including members of the US-trained Somali special forces known as Danab, in southern Somalia, a government official said.<br><br>Heavily armed members of terrorist group al-Shabaab attacked a military convoy near the village of Tihsile, some 37 kilometres outside of Mogadishu, early on Sunday, regional government official Abdulkadir Sidii said.<br><br>The convoy was first hit by a massive roadside bomb and then ambushed by a group of insurgents, Sidii said.<br><br>Seven other soldiers were injured during the attack, while four terrorists were killed as well, according to Sidii, who had been part of the convoy.<br><br>Al-Shabaab, which has ties to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack on pro-insurgent radio station Andalus, saying it killed at least 10 Somali soldiers.<br><br>The main target of the attack had been the commander of Danab, al-Shabaab said, with Sidii confirming that the commander had been wounded critically, but was alive.<br><br>Al-Shabaab regularly launches attacks on government officials, soldiers, journalists, prominent businessmen as well as civilians in the volatile nation in the Horn of Africa. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The convoy was first hit by a massive roadside bomb MOGADISHU, Jan 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Terrorists killed at least five soldiers, including members of the US-trained Somali special forces known as Danab, in southern Somalia, a government official said. Heavily armed members of terrorist group al-Shabaab attacked a military convoy near the village of Tihsile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":109503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}