AFRICOM said in a press release that the strike targeted al-Shabaab near Jilib, a village in southern Somalia that’s about 200 miles southwest of Mogadishu. As usual, the command offered no other details about the strike, and there were no comments from the US-backed Somali Defense Ministry about military operations that day. The bombing marks at least the 78th airstrike the US has launched in Somalia this year, according to AFRICOM’s numbers. Besides bombing al-Shabaab in southern Somalia, the US has also been conducting an air campaign against an ISIS affiliate based in caves in a remote mountain region in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region. Just over the past week, Puntland forces have seized three military bases from federal-backed troops in northeast Somalia.