This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelorette.

Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and bad actors throughout what is the world island, Eurasia.

We begin with Bill Rajo of the Foundation for the Defensive Democracy.

He and his colleagues keep the long-word journal watching the large conflict from the Hindu

Kush to the Mediterranean and Ambassador Hassan Hakkani, former ambassador from Pakistan

to the United States, now at the Hudson Institute to comment on a terror attack in Pakistan.

We begin, however, in Somalia.

This is East Africa, and the U.S. has been engaged in this part of the world since the

late 20th century or before.

Right now, Bill has a very helpful metric on his site about Africa using airstrikes

aka drones, and some way to inhibit or intimidate or drive back the advance of al-Shabaab.

Bill, a very good evening to you.

Thank you for this.

I recall the days of many strikes in Somalia, but now you report the second this calendar

year after 15 in 2022, African-Associated U.S. Africa Command.

What is the mission for these airstrikes into a land that is profoundly unsettled?

Good day to you, Bill.

Hello, John.

Good day.

Yes.

The US military, remember the Trump administration, disengaged from Somalia, pulled out the 800

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