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AFRICOM claims that the al-Shabaab leader they killed in an airstrike last month was likely Bashir Mohamed Mahamoud, who may have played a role in the deadly Manda Bay attack.

The U.S. military in Africa claims it killed a senior leader of al-Shabaab in an airstrike on Saturday, nearly two months after an attack in Manda Bay, Kenya that left one U.S. soldier and two American contractors dead

The head of U.S. Africa Command is looking at security at all bases hosting U.S. troops on the continent following a deadly Jan. 5 attack on a base at Manda Bay, Kenya, which killed Army Spc. Henry Mayfield Jr. and U.S. contractors Dustin Harrison and Bruce Triplett

The Defense Department has remained relatively tight-lipped regarding the brazen Jan. 5 raid on a military base at Manda Bay, Kenya, but a new report from the New York Times provides a riveting tick-tock filled with new details about how the hours-long gunfight played out

AFRICOM said it did not suspect the Sunday attack was linked to Iranian retaliation

"He told me everything would be OK. Those were his last words to me."

A U.S. service member and two Defense Department contractors were killed during an attack on a Kenyan military base on Sunday, U.S. Africa Command announced in a statement

Less than 150 U.S. personnel were at the base at the time of the attack.

Thanksgiving morning in 2014 found me on a small Kenyan army training base outside of Nairobi. I was serving as...