Under Trump, US Strikes on Somalia Have Doubled Since Last Year. Why?

Future Security Program Deputy Director David Sterman spoke with Al Jazeera on why the number of U.S. strikes in Somalia has increased this year:

“These [recent US strikes] appear to relate more closely to conditions on the battlefield – and in particular, the perceived threat from an al-Shabab offensive that has reversed some of the gains of prior Somali government offensives,” said David Sterman, the deputy director of the Future Security programme at New America.

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