{"id":4789,"date":"2026-02-16T12:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/en\/home\/somali-army-kills-4-al-shabaab-members-in-ambush"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:36:21","slug":"somali-army-kills-4-al-shabaab-members-in-ambush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/en\/policy\/somali-army-kills-4-al-shabaab-members-in-ambush","title":{"rendered":"Somali Army Kills 4 Al-Shabaab Members in Ambush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press. <\/strong> <\/span>The Somali army announced the killing of four members of the Al-Shabaab movement, which is linked to al-Qaeda, in a security operation in the country\u2019s south-central region.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia\u2019s national news agency, SONNA, reported that army units carried out a tightly planned ambush in the area between Yaasomaan and Moqokori in the Hiran region (south-central Somalia), targeting a vehicle that was transporting the four militants affiliated with the group.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said the operation was conducted according to plan after the forces obtained accurate intelligence on the militants\u2019 movements, as part of prior monitoring of their activity in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The group has waged an insurgency against the Somali government for more than 16 years and frequently targets security forces, officials, and civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Since July of last year, the Somali army\u2014supported by the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) and other international partners\u2014has stepped up its operations against Al-Shabaab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Africa<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press. The Somali army announced the killing of four members of the Al-Shabaab movement, which is linked to al-Qaeda, in a security operation in the country\u2019s south-central region. Somalia\u2019s national news agency, SONNA, reported that army units carried out a tightly planned ambush in the area between Yaasomaan and Moqokori in the Hiran region (south-central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[120],"class_list":{"0":"post-4789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-policy","8":"tag-africa"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Somali Army Kills 4 Al-Shabaab Members in Ambush - Africa Press English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-article-header-tag&quot;&gt; Africa-Press. 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