Somali security officers drive past a section of Hotel Hayat, the scene of an al-Shabaab group terrorist attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Aug. 20, 2022. Feisal Omar/Reuters
JOHANNESBURG—The United States military is rapidly scaling up attacks on al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia that’s currently the most powerful terrorist force in Africa, according to American officials and global security analysts.
While airstrikes take out terrorist leaders, a U.S.-trained Somali special forces unit called the Lightning Brigade is destroying jihadist bases across the conflict-ridden Horn of Africa region.
