{"id":364615,"date":"2018-06-09T00:19:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T23:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-one-us-soldier-killed-4-others-injured-in-somalia\/"},"modified":"2018-06-09T00:19:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T23:19:59","slug":"presstv-one-us-soldier-killed-4-others-injured-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-one-us-soldier-killed-4-others-injured-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-One US soldier killed, 4 others injured in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A US commando has been killed and four others wounded in Somalia when they came under fire during an operation against al-Shabab militants, according to the US military.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The American soldiers were on a mission Friday to clear al-Shabaab from contested areas as well as villages the militants controlled, &#8220;and establish a permanent combat outpost&#8221; to expand the reach of the Somali state, the US military&#8217;s Africa Command said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The US provided advice, assistance and aerial surveillance during the mission,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>They were members of the US special operations forces, who were fighting the militants along with 800 troops from the Somali National Security Forces and Kenyan Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<p>One local soldier was also wounded when they were attacked by mortars and small arms fire, added the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab, Africa\u2019s most-feared militant group which has links to al-Qaeda, still controls large parts of land in southern Somalia&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/06\/08\/564372\/US-troops-Somalia-alshabab\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US commando has been killed and four others wounded in Somalia when they came under fire during an operation against al-Shabab militants, according to the US military. The American soldiers were on a mission Friday to clear al-Shabaab from contested areas as well as villages the militants controlled, &#8220;and establish a permanent combat outpost&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}