US Killing Civilians With 'Impunity' in Hidden War on Somalia
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"The attacks appear to have violated international humanitarian law."
by: Eoin Higgins
An MQ-9 Reaper drone flies a combat mission over southern Afghanistan. (Photo: Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt, U.S. Air Force)
A human rights group is accusing the United States of waging a shadow air war in Somalia that is killing civilians with abandon.
Amnesty International issued its findings on the African war Tuesday evening in a report titled The Hidden US War in Somalia (pdf).
The U.S. has been covertly engaging in conflicts in Somalia for decades, but in April 2017, the Donald Trump administration upped airstrikes and attacks targeted at the rebel group Al-Shabaab.
The human rights advocacy group studied five of more than 100 strikes on Somalia over the past two years...