PENTAGON — U.S. Africa Command, which oversees U.S. military operations on the continent, will again release the number of enemy fighters killed and damage information caused from its airstrikes, after briefly saying it would no longer do so.
"We will continue to report results of strikes, although we are working on refining our messaging to place less emphasis on the number of militants killed and place more context on how these strikes are helping our Somali partners achieve their strategic security objectives," AFRICOM spokesman John Manley told VOA Friday.
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WNU Editor: This reverses an earlier decision .... US military no longer announcing deaths, damage in Somalia airstrikes (Military Times/AP). More here .... US stops touting how many al Shabaab terrorists it’s killed in Somalia (Washington Examiner).
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