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Terrorist Cowards On The Run from Gedo (jubbland region)

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At Twelve Al Qaeda linked al-shabaab have been killed and nine others wounded when Al-Shabaab rebel group and jubbland government troops clashed in Ras Qode area, 12 km east of Garbaharey, Gedo. Jubbland region.The fighting erupted after somali government government(jubbaland troops) launched assaults on a militant manned checkpoint in the area.Speaking promised to continue with their assault against the militia till they drive them away from the entire region. sourse Kismayo24, Somali legislator in Garbaharey mohamud Sayid Adan said government troops descended on the militia’s checkpoint after they received complains from locals that the Al Qaeda linked militants were robbing people in the area.He confirmed two of their soldiers dead and three others injured while three of the Twelve Al Qaeda linked al-shabaaab were killed and six others wounded during the fight.He claimed that government troops seized the checkpoint and the entire Ras Qode area and promised to continue with their assault against the militia till they drive them away from the entire region.

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Heavy fighting in Somali border town.

Mogadishu - Heavy fighting broke out on Friday close to Somalia's border with Kenya as extremist Shabaab fighters launched a dawn attack on the town of Dhobley but were later repelled, fighters on both sides said."The fighting was very heavy but we emerged victorious, there are casualties on both sides," a senior commander of the Azania militia group controlling the area told AFP by phone from the battleground.

Dhobley is under control of forces from the self-declared state of Azania, an anti-Shabaab militia reportedly backed by Kenya to create a buffer zone along the troubled frontier."We have fully regained Dhobley after a fight, the Shabaab were pushed out of the area," the Azanian commander added, declining to be named.Civilian casualties are reported to be high with fighting inside the town itself.However, a senior Shabaab commander said his fighters had made a tactical withdrawal a short distance outside the town after intense fighting."The enemy suffered heavy casualties as planned, and we will return back again when it is good for us," said Sheikh Mohamed, claiming that Shabaab fighters had also seized large stores of weapons from the town.

Dhobley is just 5km from the Kenyan border, and is a key crossing point for people fleeing to the giant Dadaab refugee camps, some 100km into eastern Kenya.Dadaab, the largest refugee complex in the world houses some 450 000 people, with 140 000 Somalis fleeing drought, famine or violence arriving this year alone, according to the UN refugee agency.Civilians and fighters were reported to have crossed the border towards the Kenyan town of Liboi, while Kenyan tanks and helicopters were reported in the area

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