Counterterrorism assets continue to mount pressure on al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabaab in southern Somalia. In the past few days, the Danab forces have conducted intensive campaigns especially in Lower Juba in an effort to dislodge al-Shabaab militants group, which has also increased activities in this region of Somalia.

According to military sources, Danab forces launched a massive military operation against al-Shabaab positions, capturing at least four villages near the port city of Kismayo in Lower Juba, southern Somalia.

The special forces unit seized Janaa-Abdale, Helishid, Mayonde, and Garascebe. The liberation of villages comes less than a week after the forces liberated other villages including Hawaljiri, Bernasey, Yaq-Bishaar and Osbo.

The Somali forces backed by allied forces, are conducting operations against al-Shabaab in Somalia to degrade the group’s ability to recruit, train and plot internal and external attacks.