US strike targets al-Shabab leader

The Pentagon says the US has carried out a missile strike in Somalia against a suspected militant leader with ties to al-Qaeda and al-Shabab.

The US military has carried out air strikes in Somalia, reportedly targeting a convoy carrying the leader of militant group al-Shabab. Here is the story in 15 seconds

About 700 teachers in Kenya are refusing to return to work in the north-east of the country fearing attacks by Somali Islamist militants.

Somali officials say an intelligence chief from the al-Shabab Islamist group was among those killed by a US air strike on Monday.

The US military was hunting for the jihadist, but it has not yet commented on reports of his death.

The Pentagon confirms that a US drone strike in Somalia last Friday killed al-Shabab leader, Adan Garar, a suspect in the 2013 Kenya mall attack.

The leader of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, Ahmed Abdi Godane, was killed following a US attack earlier this week, the Pentagon says.

The Kenyan president says "we will not flinch" in the war against Islamist group al-Shabab after a massacre near the Somali border in which 36 were killed.

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