{"id":41096,"date":"2025-01-20T02:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T23:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=41096"},"modified":"2025-01-20T02:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T23:21:09","slug":"weapons-seized-on-their-way-to-al-shabaab-in-central-south-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/weapons-seized-on-their-way-to-al-shabaab-in-central-south-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapons Seized on Their Way to al-Shabaab in Central South Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1821720532372037683-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The Somali National Army seized a vehicle loaded with weapons en route to &#8220;Al-Shabaab militants&#8221; in the Hiran province of central South Somalia. According to the Somali News Agency (SONA) on Sunday, this happened during a military operation carried out by the national army in collaboration with local resistance fighters in the outskirts of the Bartiri area in Hiran.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Mahmoud Hassan Ibrahim, commander of the 5th battalion of the Somali National Army, confirmed that the army had received intelligence about the vehicle carrying weapons for the &#8220;militants&#8221; and successfully intercepted it.<\/p>\n<p>He praised the vigilance of the army forces in preventing the weapons from reaching the terrorists, adding that &#8220;the national army is prepared to confront terrorist schemes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Somalia, the term &#8220;militants&#8221; is often used to refer to the al-Shabaab group, which carries out attacks aimed at overthrowing the Somali government to take power and enforce strict interpretations of Sharia law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Somali National Army seized a vehicle loaded with weapons en route to &#8220;Al-Shabaab militants&#8221; in the Hiran province of central South Somalia. According to the Somali News Agency (SONA) on Sunday, this happened during a military operation carried out by the national army in collaboration with local resistance fighters in the outskirts of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41097,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41096\/revisions\/41097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}