{"id":29733,"date":"2016-10-26T03:22:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T03:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/us-pledges-to-deliver-lasting-defeat-on-al\/"},"modified":"2016-10-26T03:22:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T03:22:01","slug":"us-pledges-to-deliver-lasting-defeat-on-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/us-pledges-to-deliver-lasting-defeat-on-al\/","title":{"rendered":"US pledges to &#8216;deliver lasting defeat on Al-Shabaab&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The White House on Tuesday condemned recent attacks by Al-Shabaab in Kenya and Somalia, and promised to work to \u201cdeliver a lasting defeat to terrorist groups that seek to undermine regional stability.\u201d<br \/>\n}<br \/>\nA statement issued by National Security Council spokesman Ned Price specifically cited Al-Shabaab&#8217;s killing on Tuesday of at least 12 people at a guest house in Mandera.<\/p>\n<p>The US statement also condemned the Somali insurgents&#8217; attack on an African Union Mission (Amisom) base in central Somalia that, according to the terrorists, killed 17 Djibouti soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States continues to stand with the people of Kenya and Somalia as they work to strengthen their security and expand opportunity for all citizens,\u201d the US said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to work in partnership with regional governments and Amisom to deliver a lasting defeat to terrorist groups that seek to undermine regional stability,\u201d White House said.<\/p>\n<p>The militants have also seized towns in central Somalia during the past week following the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces affiliated with Amisom.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say Al-Shabaab is stepping up operations with the aim of disrupting the election process now underway in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>On its part, the US has also been escalating its military involvement in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>About 300 US special operations troops helping Amisom and the Somali army carry out more than half-a-dozen raids per month on Shabaab positions, the New York Times reported on October 16.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes involve both ground attacks and drone bombardments, the Times said, citing \u201csenior American military officials\u201d as its source.<\/p>\n<p>US troops also often interrogate captured Shabaab fighters, the Times added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15941 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/man_photo.jpg\" alt=\"Bishaaro Hotel in Mandera on October 25, 2016 where Al-Shabaab terrorists attacked and killed 12 Kenyans. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The White House on Tuesday condemned recent attacks by Al-Shabaab in Kenya and Somalia, and promised to work to \u201cdeliver a lasting defeat to terrorist groups that seek to undermine regional stability.\u201d } A statement issued by National Security Council spokesman Ned Price specifically cited Al-Shabaab&#8217;s killing on Tuesday of at least 12 people at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29733"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29733"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}