The Pentagon says it struck a senior commander of an al-Qaeda-linked group in Somalia

The Pentagon said that on May 20, in the Somali province of Middle Jubba, a UAV of the US Armed Forces struck a high-ranking commander associated with Al-Qaeda (banned in the Russian Federation) Al-Shabaab group. The target of the US military was Mualim Usman, who is responsible for carrying out terrorist attacks outside of Somalia. He is organizing attacks in Ethiopia and Kenya, as well as recruiting foreigners into the ranks of the group. According to preliminary data, during a raid in the city of Dzhulib, he was seriously injured. Al-Shabaab has yet to comment on the assassination attempt on the jihadist. MTO resources have published statistics of grouping attacks for eight months. According to propagandists, the militants carried out nine hundred and twenty-one terrorist attacks, which claimed the lives of more than two thousand five hundred servicemen of the Armed Forces of African countries, and about two thousand eight hundred people were injured.