Leader of terrorist group al-Shabaab killed in U.S airstrike in Somalia

The Somali prime minister said on Friday that Ahmed Godane, head of
the Islamist militant group al Shabaab, was killed in a U.S. strike on
Monday, although the group that is waging an insurgency against the
government has yet to comment.

U.S. officials had said on Wednesday that they were still checking to
see whether Monday's U.S. missile strike on an al Shabaab encampment
had killed Godane, who was appointed leader in 2008 after his
predecessor was killed in a U.S. attack.

"We tell the Somalis that Godane is dead," Prime Minister Abdiweli
Sheikh Ahmed said on his Facebook page, the first government
confirmation of his death. (Reuters)