Trump orders airstrike on Islamic State planner in Somalia

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : U.S. forces carried out airstrikes Saturday in Somalia targeting Islamic State-affiliated militants, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said, the first such action in the Horn of Africa nation since President Donald Trump assumed office. U.S. airstrikes in Somalia are not a change in practice from the Biden administration, however, which carried out an attack as recently as Dec. 24 against a senior al-Shabab leader in the country.
37% : Trump said on social media that he ordered Saturday's strike on a senior ISIS planner and other recruits, who were hiding in caves in the Golis Mountains, a rugged area in Somalia's semiautonomous breakaway region of Somaliland.
29% : The United States returned to a persistent deployed presence in Somalia in 2022 after then-president Joe Biden reversed the decision by Trump in the final weeks of his first administration to withdraw from the country.
26% : "The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians," Trump said on X. "Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn't act quickly enough to get the job done.

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