Two Al-Shabaab fighters killed in Southern Somalia

Two Al-Shabaab fighters have been killed in battle after Somali National Army supported by African Union troops launched attack on Monday in the outskirt Somalia’s southern city port of Kimaiyo, AMISOM said.

African Union Peace-keeping Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) said Allied forces set off security operations in the villages near the administrative capital of Jubbaland State.

While conducting the security operations to flush out they engaged shoot out with handful of Al-Shabaab in Caba village outside Kismayo where two Al-Shabaab fighters killed.

“The forces killed two Al-Shabaab terrorists. Somali and AMISOM troops are working closely to destroy Al-Shabaab and bring peace and security to Somalia,” it said on its twitter.

AU troops and SNA have been launching attacks on Al-Shabaab controlled areas.

Al-Shabaab rules large swathe of Lower and Middle Jubba regions.

Somalia’s Foreign Minister Abdisalam Omer told the UN General Assembly’s annual ministerial meeting on Saturday that as a result of successful joint operations by the Somali military and the African Union’s peacekeeping force “we have militarily defeated the evil that is Al Shabaab.”

He said Al-Shabaab group controls less than 10 per cent of the country and many of its leaders have been killed or have defected in recent months.

Omar pointed out that Al-Shabaab has responded by turning to “asymmetric warfare tactics to conduct terror attacks against soft targets in Somalia and increasingly in neighboring countries.”

He said the government is trying “to enhance security cooperation” to prevent new attacks.