... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia...
holy warriors, including four senior commanders, an officer said Thursday.
Somali army 43rd infantry division commander Gen. Ismail Sahardid told newsmen that the forces launched an attack on Bar-Sanguni town, some 45 km south of the coastal city of Kismayo
...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region..., before wresting control.
Sahardid did not comment on possible casualties on his forces. He added the forces seized two technicals from the holy warriors.
Kismayo was one of the strongholds of al-Shabaab, with its port being used as the group’s main revenue source before it was forced out by Kenyan forces in 2012.