At a time when the Horn of Africa region is witnessing escalating regional tension, 4 Emirati soldiers and a Bahraini officer were killed in a terrorist operation that targeted “General Gordon’s Camp” in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and was claimed by the extremist Islamic “Al-Shabab Mujahideen” movement linked to Al-Qaeda. The UAE Ministry of Defense announced, in a statement on Saturday-Sunday night, that 3 of its soldiers and a Bahraini officer were killed, and two were injured, after they were exposed to a “terrorist act while performing their work duties in training and qualifying the Somali armed forces, which falls within the bilateral agreement between the UAE and Somalia, within the framework of Military cooperation between the two countries,” before the death toll was announced yesterday, with the death of a fourth soldier from his injury.

Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on the Internet, saying that it “resulted in the killing of many people participating in the UAE military effort,” describing the UAE as an “enemy of Islamic law,” at a time when the advisor to the UAE president, Anwar Gargash, confirmed that the attack The treacherous “will not deter us from continuing the message of security and safety and combating extremism and terrorism in all its forms, and we will remain as we were, champions of truth, defending the stability of the region for the good and peace.