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I'm John Batchel with my colleagues, Caleb Weiss in Africa, for the Foundation for

Defense of Democracy and also for the Bridgeway Foundation in Bill Rajo in the U.S.

East Coast Times. With me, he keeps the Long War journal.

Caleb, just checking up on Somalia, because we've been speaking of the Islamic State in

West Africa. Does the Islamic State have a foothold in any fashion in Somalia, or is that

an al-Qaeda story?

It does. Perhaps currently weakening position in Somali. It has a branch in northern Somali in the semi-autonomous region of Pontland in the extreme north. That's sort of been its hub and main base for a decade now. But for the past, well, since January, the Pontland Defense forces have been mounting a pretty large counteroffensive against Ayas Somalia that includes a record number of U.S. airstrikes, as well as Emirati airstrikes and ground forces in the thousands from Pontland, sort of pushing the Islamic State out of its main strongholds

and sort of caves and hideouts in those mountains of northern Somalia.

To caveat that, while the Portlanders have killed a decent amount of fighters

and rooted them out of some areas. They haven't completely wiped out

ISMalia. In fact, most of its senior leadership is still intact, which without destroying that,

without destroying the wider networks, obviously that leaves a chance for them to rebound,

just like we saw these along the state rebound around the world. Bill, you have a question.

The U.S. Africa Command over the past week has launched at least four air strikes

against both Shabab and against the Islamic State.

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