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FILE: F-16 Fighting Falcons based in the Central Command area of operations conduct armed aerial patrols over Somalia on Jan. 2, 2021. (Staff Sgt. Trevor T. McBride/U.S. Air Force)

US forces bomb al-Shabab in Somalia over eight days

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Aug 17, 2025

DAABDAMALE, PUNTLAND, SOMALIA - JANUARY 25: Soldiers with the Puntland Defense Forces walk back from a cave where Islamic State fighters lived until recently being flushed out on the frontline near Daabdamale, Puntland, Somalia on January 25, 2025. Islamic State in Somalia recruits foreign fighters and brings them into Somalia to try to gain ground in what is becoming a key nerve center for the Islamic State. (Photo by Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

US forces capture ISIS finance chief in Somalia

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Jul 26, 2025

Army combat patch

Army authorizes combat patches for soldiers in parts of Africa, the Middle East

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Jul 5, 2025

A F/A-18F flies above a desert environment.

US airstrikes surge in Somalia, surpassing 2024 numbers

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on May 31, 2025

A fighter jet takes off down the runway of an aircraft carrier.

US carries out multiple airstrikes on ISIS in Somalia

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Feb 2, 2025

Maj. Gen. Kenneth Ekman of U.S. Africa Command visits troops at Air Base 101 in Niamey, Niger on May 30, 2024. (photo by Tech. Sgt. Christopher Dyer/U.S. Air Force)

US troops to leave Niger bases this weekend and in August

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Jul 6, 2024

Pentagon won’t say if any commanders were fired for deadly attack in Kenya

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 11, 2022

They were painted as rogue Green Berets. This is the truth the Pentagon doesn’t want you to hear

They were painted as rogue Green Berets. This is the truth the Pentagon doesn’t want you to hear

By Haley Britzky

Updated on Nov 19, 2021

Guinea Armed Forces begin Flintlock 2020

US suspends military support to Guinea after Special Forces-trained troops launch coup on their day off

By Jeff Schogol

Updated on Sep 14, 2021

In rare move, Army names 2 soldiers killed in 2017 Niger ambush honorary Green Berets

In rare move, Army names 2 soldiers killed in 2017 Niger ambush honorary Green Berets

By Jeff Schogol

Updated on Jul 21, 2021

US launches first airstrike on target in Somalia since Biden became president

By Jeff Schogol

Updated on Jul 20, 2021

Team of Marines deployed to protect US Embassy in Eswatini amid massive unrest

Team of Marines deployed to protect US Embassy in Eswatini amid massive unrest

By Haley Britzky

Updated on Jul 8, 2021

Decades after hellish ‘Black Hawk Down’ battle, 60 special operators will have their awards upgraded

Decades after hellish ‘Black Hawk Down’ battle, 60 special operators will have their awards upgraded

By Haley Britzky

Updated on Jul 1, 2021

How I learned my Green Beret husband was killed in the Niger ambush

By Michelle Black

Posted on May 31, 2021

Navy SEAL Team 6 operator sentenced to 10 years over killing of Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar

By Haley Britzky

Updated on Jan 24, 2021

Navy SEAL Team 6 operator to plead guilty to killing Army Green Beret in Mali

By Paul Szoldra

Updated on Jan 5, 2021