U.S. Africa Command

"We retain the means and the will to strike the al-Shabaab terrorist network when necessary."

'The U.S. service member is in stable condition and receiving treatment for injuries that are not assessed to be life-threatening.'

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The aircraft arrived from an airbase in Russia after transiting through Syria where they were repainted to camouflage their Russian origin, U.S. Africa Command said

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

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday that U.S. strategic goals could include drawing down troops in Africa despite French pleas that American support is "critical" to countering the growing strength of terror groups in the region with links to the Islamic State and al Qaeda

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

"This is yet another example of the lies, propaganda and fake news coming from al-Shabaab and other malign actors such as Iran and its proxies"

The U.S. military believes that an unarmed American drone reported lost near Libya's capital last month was in fact shot down by Russian air defenses and it is demanding the return of the aircraft's wreckage, U.S. Africa Command says

Watch how a psychological operations team helped end the war lord Joseph Kony's reign in Africa where he was kidnapping kids and forcing them to fight as child soldiers. They've been doing inception long before Leonardo DiCaprio made it cool.

​Since the U.S. and Chinese militaries became neighbors in the small African country of Djibouti, they haven't been getting along very well

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