Shabaab under the cosh as commanders killed

[Deeq A.]

The pressure on al-Shabaab could never be greater after several of its outfield commanders and scores of their foot soldiers were liquidated by a lethal combination of Somali military raids and US precision strikes.Several weeks ago, the Somali government claimed its forces had cornered the Islamist fighters who were being relentlessly pursued in their shrinking pockets of hideouts and apparently neutralised.

Source: Hiiraan Online