{"id":15460,"date":"2024-02-13T00:46:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T00:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/three-uae-soldiers-killed-in-attack-on-military-base-in-somalia\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T00:46:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T00:46:10","slug":"three-uae-soldiers-killed-in-attack-on-military-base-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/three-uae-soldiers-killed-in-attack-on-military-base-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Three UAE soldiers killed in attack on military base in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Three soldiers from the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces and an officer from the Bahrain Defense Force were killed in an attack at a military base in Somalia\u2019s capital, the UAE\u2019s defense ministry said Sunday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The attack took place at the General Gordon military base in Mogadishu on Saturday night, the ministry said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            UAE personnel had been training soldiers from the Somali Armed Forces as part of an agreement between the UAE and Somalia, the ministry said. Two others were injured during the attack, it added.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            An army officer told Reuters that<strong> <\/strong>the gunman was a newly trained Somali soldier. \u201cThe soldier opened fire on UAE trainers and Somali military officials when they started praying,\u201d the official said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Reuters reported the al Qaeda-linked terror group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack via a statement on its Radio al Andalus.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cWe understand the soldier had defected from al-Shabaab before he was recruited as a soldier by Somalia and UAE,\u201d the army official said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Al-Shabaab was designated as a terrorist group by the US in 2008 and by a UN Security Council committee\u00a0in 2010.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud condemned the attack and instructed Somalia\u2019s security agencies to conduct a \u201cthorough and urgent investigation.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The UAE said it would cooperate with the Somali government in investigating what it called a terrorist attack, and reiterated its resolve to combat terrorism and maintain peace and stability in the region.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            <em>Correction: This story has been updated to remove an errant description of the army officer who spoke to Reuters.<\/em>    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three soldiers from the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces and an officer from the Bahrain Defense Force were killed in an attack at a military base in Somalia\u2019s capital, the UAE\u2019s defense ministry said Sunday. The attack took place at the General Gordon military base in Mogadishu on Saturday night, the ministry said. UAE personnel <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15460","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\/15460","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=15460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}