It was the deadliest attack on the Shabab in the more than decade-long American campaign against the group, an affiliate of Al Qaeda, and a sharp deviation from previous American strikes, which have concentrated on the group’s leaders, not on its foot soldiers.
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Gulf of Aden
ETHIOPIA
SOMALIA
Camp Raso
Mogadishu
KENYA
Indian Ocean
300 miles
MARCH 7, 2016
By The New York Times