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Extremists launched a deadly attack on a luxury hotel in Kenya's capital Tuesday, sending people fleeing in panic.

The U.S. military says it has killed 11 al-Shabab extremists with a pair of airstrikes outside Somalia's capital.

The strikes were carried out in close coordination with Somalia's government and were "conducted to thwart al-Shabab.

The rivalry supports observers' suspicions that al-Shabab is drifting from its goal of establishing a strict Islamic state.

The U.S. has carried out over two dozen such airstrikes this year against the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab.

The U.S. military announced its deadliest airstrike against the al-Shabab extremist group in Somalia in nearly a year.

A U.S. military airstrike has killed 18 al-Shabab extremists, the U.S. Africa Command said Saturday.

The U.S. Africa Command statement says the strike was carried out on Tuesday, 28 miles northeast of the port city of Kismayo.

U.S. Africa Command wants to pull hundreds of troops from Africa and downsize special operations missions there.

Joint-coalition forces were operating against al-Shabab militants about 217 miles southwest of Mogadishu.

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