Seven Al Shabaab Commanders including a Kenyan have been killed by the AMISOM forces in Somalia.
In an AMISOM statement released on Tuesday, the Kenyan national identified as Sheik Mansur was the chief trainer, who together with others were killed in one of the operations that also involved the Somali National Army.
Also among the Al Shabaab fighters killed in the joint forces operation conducted in Lower Shebelle, Southern Somalia, is a Yemeni explosive expert known as Abu Islam.
The latest gain by the forces of different countries come a few weeks after Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) killed the militia group's Intelligent Chief and Deputy Commander Mahad Mohammed Karatey alongside dozens of middle level commanders.
The mission to crush the extremist group, which has been staging deadly attacks in Kenya and other countries in East Africa, has attracted other international forces with reports indicating that Jordanian and British Special Forces are secretly assisting in fighting Al Shabaab militants.
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It is also in the public domain that the United States has been active in the war, using drones to strike enemy camps with a special interest of neutralising the group's leadership.
On Thursday last week, a US drone attacked a key Al Shabaab leader identified as Hassan Ali Dhoore, killing him and two others in Jilib, a few kilometres from the Kenyan border.
On March 5, US warplanes and drones conducted airstrikes on one of the militia group's training camps, killing more than 100 fighters.
