Bariire is the second town in the country’s lower Shabelle region to be liberated by the UPDF from the violent militant group after Sabid-Anole fell in June 2025.

Somali National Army, in collaboration with Uganda People's Defence Forces, liberated strategic Bariire town in Lower ...

Somali Minister of Defence Ahmed Moalim Fiqi confirmed that 120 Al-Shabaab militants were killed during an offensive in Bariire, with several others captured alive. He told a press briefing that many ...

The African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) strongly refutes media reports alleging heavy ...

Somali government forces, backed by troops from the AU forces, launched large-scale military operations on Sunday targeting ...

The African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) confirmed on Sunday that its troops, backed by Somali ...

After a thorough assessment of the Somali National Army-led operation near Bariire, Somalia, on Aug. 25, 2017 and the associated allegations of civilian casualties, U.S. Special Operations Command ...

Bariire has been a key target for Somali and AU troops. Militants have used the city as a military base from which to organize attacks they carry out in Mogadishu, and to run courts in which they ...

Bariire, 55 kilometers southwest of Mogadishu, was captured by Somali government and AMISOM forces last Saturday from al-Shabab.

"We overran Bariire base, burnt three military vehicles and took two vehicles," Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's spokesman for military operations, told Reuters, referring to a brief occupation of ...

The Bariire operation is likely to provoke questions in Washington about the growing U.S. footprint in the Horn of Africa nation, which has been torn apart by civil war since 1991.

AMISOM and Somali forces captured the town in mid-August, but Al-Shabab retook control of Bariire on Saturday, the same day that the truck bombs detonated in Mogadishu, the New York Times reported.