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The specially-trained and equipped Danab forces have been active on the battlefields, carrying out covert operations inside Al-Shabaab strongholds in Somalia.

The group faced defeats in the battlefields after Somali army backed by local armed clan militia made gains in Hiran region.

Al-Shabaab has torched down water wells and telecommunications masts in the region in the latest attacks amid military operations in the country.

Fahad Yasin is a former Al Jazeera Arabic journalist who has had a long root in the terrorist groups in Somalia and was accused of plotting many high-profile assassinations and attacks.

The government forces have in recent weeks been conducting operations in Lower Shabelle, Middle Shabelle, Hiran,, and Galgaduud regions in the south and central Somalia to regain control of the remaining areas from Al-Shabaab.

Ma’wisley fighters have taken up arms against Al-Shabaab in the Hiran region, and the government of Somalia sees them as an effective force to weaken the terrorist group.

This statement comes at a time when security officials in the Hiran region have confirmed that 20 people have died, while 7 trucks carrying food supplies from Beledweyne to Mahaas district in Hirshabelle state were burnt.

Waxay Al-Shabaab sheegtay inay dishay in ka badan 20 xubnood oo katirsan Kooxda Macwiisleey, ee dagaalka kula jirta gobolka Hiiraan.

Though lawmakers promised accountability in the immediate aftermath of the ambush, a report from the Center for a New American Security found that few improvements had been made to the oversight process by 2020.

The interior ministry recorded all traditional elders assassinated by the militant group fighting to topple the western-backed Somali government.

AFRICOM is helping the Somali government in the fight against Al-Shabaab, by carrying out airstrikes against the group, as well as providing training to some of the Somali forces, including Danab.

The group added that Kenya is now more vulnerable to attacks than it was in 2011 when KDF crossed into Somalia for an operation dubbed "Linda Nchi" in response to kindnappings.