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Two U.S Navy sailors had been reported lacking whereas conducting operations Thursday off the coast of Somalia, the U.S. Central Command mentioned.
Search and rescue operations are presently ongoing, the assertion mentioned.
Officers mentioned that the 2 sailors had been reported lacking on Thursday night.
The temporary assertion gave no extra details about what the pair had been doing after they went lacking.
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A airplane comes into land over a secured seaside space close to the runway of Aden Adde Worldwide Airport at solar set on September 4, 2022 in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Ed Ram/Getty Pictures))
CENTCOM mentioned that the sailors had been forward-deployed to the U.S. fifth Fleet (C5F) space of operations and supported a “extensive number of missions.”
“Out of respect for the households affected, we won’t launch additional data at the moment,” the assertion mentioned.
Al-Shabab fighters conduct navy train in northern Mogadishu’s Suqaholaha neighborhood, Somalia, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photograph/ Farah Abdi Warsameh, file)
The U.S. has an estimated 450 navy personnel in Somalia after President Biden reversed his predecessor Donald Trump’s resolution to withdraw U.S. forces.
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The U.S. gives navy help within the East African nation because it continues to battle, what the U.S. has known as, “the most important and most threatening al-Qaida community on this planet.”
(L-R) President of Mozambique Filipe Nyusi, President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Niger Mohamed Bazoum, U.S. Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrive for the Peace, Safety, and Governance Discussion board in the course of the U.S. – Africa Leaders Summit on December 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Pictures)
In 2022, Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud declared “whole struggle” on the hundreds of al-Shabab extremists who for greater than a decade have managed components of the nation and carried out devastating assaults whereas exploiting clan divisions and extorting hundreds of thousands of {dollars} a 12 months of their quest to impose an Islamic state.
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The U.S. helps Somali forces and a multinational African Union power with drone strikes, intelligence and coaching.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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