U.S. Fighting In Somalia

I dont know if you knew or not, but the united states is still conducting operations in Somalia.

This is a good blurp from the article about the extent of our operations there:

Earlier Sunday, officials said at least eight foreign and an unspecified number of Somali Islamic militants were killed in fighting with Somali government forces and during bombardment from a U.S. warship on a remote, mountainous northeastern area.

The fight against Islamic militants in Somalia has moved to the relatively peaceful northeast of the country. Somali government forces and their allies have previously fought the militants only in the country’s south.

“Foreign fighters, Somali militants and members of the international terrorists including British nationals, Americans, Swedish, Pakistanis and Yemenis were killed in separate operations carried out by Puntland troops and U.S. navy forces,” said a Sunday statement by the government of the semiautonomous northeastern region of Puntland.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, asked Sunday to comment on the reported U.S. naval bombardment in northeastern Somalia, said, “That’s possibly an ongoing operation.” Therefore, he added, he would not comment.

The complete article can be found here with a followup here.