African Union forces claimed Friday that during combats earlier this week they had inflicted heavy casualties on Al-Shabaab, the jihadist terrorist group based in Somalia.
AU officials said this was one of the bloodiest clashes in Somalia for months, while the militants also claimed heavy losses on their enemy.
The militants had begun the attack with a suicide car bomb at the base of Ethiopian troops in Halgan, 300 kilometres north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
"The militants were 400 in …
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