Seventeen al-Shabab fighters have been killed in drone attacks by the US military that targeted their bases in southern Somalia, Press TV reports.
On Friday, three high-ranking members and 14 fighters of the al-Shabab militant group were killed when the US military used remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles in an attack on Dhoobley town, which is located near Kismayo, the capital of the lower Juba region and a port city about 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, a Press TV correspondent reported on Saturday.
On Thursday, nine civilians were killed and 30 others wounded in US airstrikes on the outskirts of Kismayo.
Somalia is the sixth country where the US military has used remote-controlled aircraft to conduct deadly airstrikes.
The United States has also used drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen.
Somalia has been without a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Strategically located in the Horn of Africa, Somalia remains one of the countries generating the highest number of refugees and internally displaced persons in the world.
Source: The Press TV
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