May 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. service member died in an attack while advising troops in Somalia, U.S. Africa Command announced Friday.
Two other U.S. military members were injured in the attack, CNN reported.
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May 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. service member died in an attack while advising troops in Somalia, U.S. Africa Command announced Friday. Two other U.S. military members were injured in the attack, CNN reported.
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The U.S. troops were advising members of the Somali national army, which is combating the al-Shabab terrorist organization in Barii about 40 miles west of the capital of Mogadishu when they came under small arms fire.
The U.S. advisers were involved in an "advise and assist mission," U.S. Africa Command said in a statement, an undertaking different from the accelerated U.S. military effort in Somalia of airstrikes against terrorists.
The names of the servicemen involved in the incident were not released.