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In 2015, Robow defected from Al-Shabaab due to differences and fallout over ideology issues with the group's leader Ahmed Godane, who killed all his opponents.

Al-Shabaab has been executing people in public places on suspicion of working with the Somali, Kenya, UK, and American Intelligence Services as the group doesn't allow the suspects for lawyers.

The attacks by Al-Shabaab in Eastern Ethiopia left dozens of soldiers from the Somali regional state dead while the militant group suffered heavy losses.

Al-Shabab faces military pressure as allied forces from Somalia, AU and US have intensified military operations in the southern and central regions of the Horn of Africa country.

Xasan Sheekh ayaa sheegay in dowladda ay qaadi doono tallaabooyin la xiriira amniga iyo la dagaalanka Al-Shabaab, maadaama nabad iyo xasilooni la'aan aysan Soomaaliya gaari karin horumarka ay hiigsanayso.

Last weekend, the authorities in Somalia said they had killed more than 100 Al Shabab militants who had made a cross-border incursion.

Al-Shabaab increased its attacks in Somalia as the new government is yet to be formed, and the United States returned its forces that Trump had removed from the country a year ago when Biden defeated him in the 2020 election.

Al-Shabaab has a powerful intelligence unit known as Amniyat which largely operates inside the government-controlled areas in the country, gathering information about its targets.

Abdullahi Wafow has been in the region for over a decade fighting against Al-Shabaab, Al-Qaeda's most deadly ally in East Africa.

The airstrike becomes the second since Biden authorized the re-deployment of hundreds of U.S. special operations soldiers to Somalia in May this year.

On Thursday, officials, and residents of the Bakool region, on the border with neighboring Somalia, reported Al-Shabab attacks the previous day against bases hosting a special Ethiopian police unit that helps protect the frontier.

Al-Shabaab has stepped up its terror attacks in Somalia as new PM Hamza Abdi Barre vowed to defeat the militant group through military and non-military means.