The United States of America indicated that one of the leaders of the Al-Shabaab movement was injured in an air strike carried out by its drones in the town of Jilib in the Middle Juba region in southern Somalia.
"After a comprehensive battle damage assessment, the United States assesses that one of the Al-Shabaab commanders was injured as a result of the operation," said Lt. Timothy Petrak, a spokesman for the US Africa Command, AFRICOM.
Petrak did not reveal the name of the al-Shabaab leader who was wounded in the raid, which took place on May 20 in the town of Jilib, a stronghold of al-Shabaab, 385 km from the capital, Mogadishu.
The strike came while Mohd Salad, the director of Somalia's National Intelligence and Security Agency, was on a visit to the United States to meet with US officials from the Pentagon, the CIA and the FBI, according to a source familiar with the visit who did not wish to be identified.
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