The deputy leader of the Islamic State group in Somalia was killed in an American airstrike, US military confirms.
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"Today's airstrike killed Abdulhakim Dhuqub, the deputy leader of Islamic State," Puntland's security minister, Abdisamad Mohamed Galan, told Reuters on Sunday. " you take into account that they've never done a large terror attack in several years of operation, you basically have a gang stuck out in the desert," he told Reuters."Just because they are called ISIS, it doesn't make them an existential threat."
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