Why Is the United States Bombing Somalia? - March 14, 2019

from Deep Dish on Global Affairs · host Brian Hanson, Bronwyn Bruton, Paul D. Williams, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

In recent months, Somalia has seen a surge of airstrikes by the US military as part of an intensifying campaign against al Shabaab, an extremist group affiliated with al Qaeda. Bronwyn Bruton of the Atlantic Council and Paul D. Williams of George Washington University join Deep Dish this week to explain what the United States is doing in Somalia and why al Shabaab is a target.

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