VIDEO: US targets al-Shabab leader - in 15 secs

The Pentagon says that the US military has carried out an air strike targeting a senior al-Shabab leader in Somalia.

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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 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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