{"id":17316,"date":"2019-02-19T05:53:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T05:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mustaqbalradio.net\/?p=17316"},"modified":"2019-02-19T05:53:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T05:53:55","slug":"u-s-army-denies-its-3-soldiers-killed-in-somalia-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/u-s-army-denies-its-3-soldiers-killed-in-somalia-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. army denies its 3 soldiers killed in Somalia attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Monday denied losing three of its soldiers in a terror attack northwest of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Africa Command (AFICOM) accused extremist group al-Shabab of falsely claiming its fighters killed three U.S. soldiers in the attack on a military base at Baledogle on Feb. 15.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No U.S. casualties were reported after an airfield at Baledogle, Somalia, received indirect fire Feb. 15,&#8221; Africom spokesman Christopher P. Karns told Xinhua. &#8220;The terrorist group al-Shabab falsely claimed it killed three U.S. soldiers in the attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Karns said there is an uptick in instances where extremists resort to making false claims to the press.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab had claimed that its fighters fired mortar rounds, killing three American soldiers and five Somali members of a special commando, whose training base is at Baledogle, about 95 km northwest of Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p>Karns said increased pressure is being placed on the al-Shabab network, helping to create enhanced security conditions while creating time and space to bring about political progress and economic development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2019, persistent pressure has been placed on al-Shabab by the federal government of Somalia, its forces, and partners in an effort to degrade its network,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>U.S., Somali and African Union forces have increased ground and air offensives against the militant group in the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Monday denied losing three of its soldiers in a terror attack northwest of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday. The U.S. Africa Command (AFICOM) accused extremist group al-Shabab of falsely claiming its fighters killed three U.S. soldiers in the attack on a military base at Baledogle on Feb. 15. &#8220;No U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}