A Guide to Trump’s Second-Term Military Strikes and Actions
In The News Piece in Council on Foreign Relations
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Christian Clausen/Released
Jan. 15, 2026
The Future Security Program's data on U.S. strikes in Somalia was cited in a Council on Foreign Relations examination of Trump's strikes around the world in 2025.
Beginning in February 2025, the Trump administration expanded its counterterrorism efforts in Somalia. These operations targeted al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate active since 2006 that controls large swaths of the country’s south-central regions, and ISIS-Somalia, a smaller affiliate of the self-proclaimed Islamic State operating in the country’s northeast. The administration launched 126 operations in Somalia in 2025, killing nearly two hundred militants, according to New America, a Washington-based think tank.
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