Somalia's government welcomed the death of Bilal al-Sudani, the Islamic State group leader killed by U.S. special operations forces in a remote part of northern Somalia on Wednesday night.
"It's a very positive and welcoming," Hussein Sheikh Ali, national security adviser for Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told VOA Somali on Thursday.
The U.S. operation targeted al-Sudani, an important Islamic State financial facilitator, and took place in the Cal Miskaad mountains, in a remote cave complex in the Bari region of Somalia's Puntland state. U.S. officials said the U.S. forces had intended to capture al-Sudani and other associates, but that attempt failed.
Somalia's national security adviser said the U.S. operation was important and shows the United States was not only targeting al-Shabaab, but also Islamic State militants in Somalia.
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