{"id":59021,"date":"2020-01-19T10:36:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T02:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59021"},"modified":"2020-01-19T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T02:36:09","slug":"somali-army-kills-16-al-shabaab-militants-in-southern-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59021","title":{"rendered":"Somali army kills 16 al-Shabaab militants in southern region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>MOGADISHU, Jan 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Somali security forces killed 16 al-Shabaab militants and injured 20 others in intense clashes in the southern Middle Shabelle region on Friday night, a military officer confirmed.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud, commander of unit 27 of the Somali National Army (SNA), told reporters that the militants launched an attack on a base used by Somali forces in the Haji Ali area, but the army fended off the attack and inflicted casualties on the fighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The army killed 16 militants and injured 20 others, the commander said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our army is now pursuing the remnants who ran to the forest,&#8221; he added, noting that four government soldiers were killed during the fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the al-Qaida allied terrorist group said they overran the army base and killed five soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group claimed that its fighters also seized two military vehicles, guns and ammunition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Jan. 10, Somali national forces killed three al-Shabaab militants and captured another during an operation in the Lower Juba region in the southern part of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somali troops have intensified operations against al-Shabaab in southern regions where the militants still hold swathes of rural areas, carrying out ambushes and planting landmines. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU, Jan 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Somali security forces killed 16 al-Shabaab militants and injured 20 others in intense clashes in the southern Middle Shabelle region on Friday night, a military officer confirmed. Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud, commander of unit 27 of the Somali National Army (SNA), told reporters that the militants launched an attack on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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\/59021"}],"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=59021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}