{"id":13206,"date":"2023-12-23T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T02:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/23\/us-somali-forces-kill-al-shabaab-commander-responsible-for-multiple-attacks-official-says\/"},"modified":"2023-12-23T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T02:50:10","slug":"us-somali-forces-kill-al-shabaab-commander-responsible-for-multiple-attacks-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/23\/us-somali-forces-kill-al-shabaab-commander-responsible-for-multiple-attacks-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Somali forces kill Al-Shabaab commander responsible for multiple attacks, official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Maalim Ayman, a senior leader of the Al-Shabaab militant group operating in Somalia and Kenya, was killed on December 17 by a joint military operation between the Somali and US forces, Somali Minister for Information Daud Aweis announced Friday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cAyman was accountable for planning multiple lethal terrorist attacks in Somalia and nearby countries,\u201d Aweis said in a statement on social media.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Most notably, Ayman is responsible for a terrorist attack on US and Kenyan personnel at Kenya\u2019s Manda Bay Airfield on January 5, 2020, US officials say.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Three Americans were killed, including one soldier and two civilian contractors. Two more US service members and one civilian contractor were wounded, according to a statement from the US Department of State.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The US government put out a bounty of up to $10 million\u00a0for \u201cinformation leading to the arrest or conviction in any country of Maalim Ayman\u201d in January of this year.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Al-Shabaab was designated by the US as a terrorist group in 2008 and by a UN Security Council committee\u00a0in 2010.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maalim Ayman, a senior leader of the Al-Shabaab militant group operating in Somalia and Kenya, was killed on December 17 by a joint military operation between the Somali and US forces, Somali Minister for Information Daud Aweis announced Friday. \u201cAyman was accountable for planning multiple lethal terrorist attacks in Somalia and nearby countries,\u201d Aweis said <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}