Trump “ bombing hell ” again of terrorist groups, Houthis in Isis

Before his first mandate in the White House, President Donald Trump campaigned on “bombing the hell” of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. At that time, the terrorist group increased, caused trouble in the Middle East and beyond.

Now, about a decade later and a few months after his second term, the president is back in terrorist groups.

The US military has significantly increased the number of air strikes it has made against the Islamic State in Somalia under Trump compared to its predecessor, Joe Biden, according to information accessible to the public on these operations.

And through the Gulf of Aden, a body of water that separates the horn from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, the United States has strongly bombed the Houthi rebels in Yemen who have been constantly for more than a month in order to bring them to stop their red sea attacks. Trump’s new bombing campaign against the group seems much more aggressive than Biden administration operations.

ISIS and others bombing

Trump’s campaign promises in 2015 and 2016 to “bomb the Islamic State’s escolant” preceded an intense air campaign against the terrorist group. The White House later announced that the US military defeated the Islamic State.

Its caliphate which once spicy in Iraq and Syria collapsed under international pressure, but the threat has persisted. The American intelligence community still considers the Islamic State as a major threat, and it is not limited to the old Caliphate.

During the first three months of the new Trump administration, the American command of Africa revealed at least eight cycles of air strikes against the Islamic State in Somalia. It is a major jump from previous years under Biden.

Last year, the US military made an air strike on the Islamic State in Somalia, according to statements accessible to the public of AFRACOM. And in 2023, American forces carried out an operation of the solitary assault against the terrorist group in the country. In 2022 and 2021, there was no public mission.

Isis-Somalia has doubled in the past year, wrote the office of the National Director of National Intelligence in a March report on global threats. Africom regularly says that the terrorist group “has proven both its will and its capacity” to attack American and partners and calls on these efforts a threat to American national security interests.

The American army also conducts operations against Al-Shabaab, which Odni calls the largest and richest al-Qaeda affiliation group. It has long been active in Somalia.

The United States has an average of more than 10 turns of air strikes against the group each year that Biden was in office, with a peak of 15 in 2023. So far, there have been at least five rounds of American air strikes against Al-Shabaab this year, the last of which took place on Wednesday.

The strikes come in the midst of the information according to which the White House planned to eliminate Africom and to close diplomatic positions in Africa, which could harm the efforts to combat terrorism. Air strikes also seem to reflect the president’s decision to give us commanders more authority over strikes and operations.

An American defense official told Business Insider on Thursday that the defense secretary Pete Hegseth “focused on persistent malignant influence” by the Islamic State, Al-Shabaab and similar groups in the region, adding that “we are working in close collaboration with the Somali government to degrade and destroy these malignant actors”.

The official said Hegseth had “allowed combat commanders” to take the necessary measures to identify and eliminate threats to the United States and his interests.

The United States still hunts the Islamic State in the Middle East. In March, for example, the soldiers killed the commander in Iraq of the terrorist group in Iraq. Other operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria which were publicly recognized by the Trump administration were led by the forces of local partners and “activated” by American troops.

The Houthis

Between the end of 2023 and the end of last year, the warships and the American planes were responsible for intercepting missiles and Houthi drones targeting ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. US forces have also made air strikes to destroy rebel weapons and assets in Yemen.

This year started with a relative calm in the Houthi conflict, but on March 15, the Trump administration launched a new strike campaign in Yemen to bring the rebels to permanently stop their sea attacks. Since then, the United States has moved a second aircraft carrier in the Middle East and has deployed B-2 stealth bombers to a base of the Indian Ocean in a large demonstration of strength.

The senior officials, including the president, said that the large -scale bombing would be “relentless” and that the American army frequently praises operations “24/7” on social networks.

However, experts and analysts have doubted that the intense campaign, now in its second month, will completely destroy the Houthis, as Trump threatened.

We do not know how much from the Houthi network that the United States has affected. Lieutenant-General of the Air Force Alexus Grynkewich, director of joint personnel operations, told journalists on March 17, a few days after the start of the campaign, which strikes training sites, drone infrastructure, command centers and arms storage facilities.

Since then, the details have been rare, but the American central command, which oversees the operations of the Middle East, said on Thursday that the American forces had struck a port in Yemen that the Houthis used to import fuel.