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Somalian officials and authorities said a prominent lawmaker was among the 48 individuals killed in a suicide bombing at a polling station, The Associated Press reported. Opposition lawmaker Amina Mohamed Abdi was at the Beledweyne polling ..read more
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The Pentagon wants President Biden sign off on sending several hundred special operations troops into Somalia to help stop the spread of the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab terrorist group, The Wall Street Journal reported. Defense leaders ..read more
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Somalia’s Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble unveiled the timetable for indirect parliamentary and presidential elections. The timetable schedules elections for the upper house to take place on July 25 and the lower house between August ..read more
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Happy Thursday and welcome to Overnight Defense. I'm Ellen Mitchell, and here's your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the newsletter. THE TOPLINE:& ..read more
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Ethiopia’s civil war with its Tigray population is now a national emergency. Violence escalated so severely last week that the U.S. Department of State advised all Americans to leave the country using “commercial ..read more
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The Pentagon is boosting its military presence off the coast of Somalia as the U.S. prepares to move roughly 700 troops from the country to other parts of Africa.The U.S. has sent an aircraft carrier group and a Marine expeditionary unit for ..read more
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is urging the U.S. to welcome Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban, saying “we must draw upon the best of our history and open our arms to the huddled masses yearning to breathe free” in an op-ed published Friday& ..read more
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Al Qaeda-linked group al-Shabaab stormed a Somali military base in an attempt to recapture a town that it lost to the government in early August, Reuters reported on Wednesday.Witnesses told the news agency that terrorist fighters invaded the ..read more
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President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to withdraw nearly all of the 700 U.S. troops stationed in Somalia by early next year, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced Friday.Trump “has ordered the Department of Defense and the United States ..read more
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday reflected on her own painful experience with Islamophobia to push the Biden administration appoint a special envoy to monitor anti-Muslim hate in the U.S. and worldwide. Omar was joined by other Muslim ..read more