DHAKA: A top intelligence official with Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affliated Shebab rebels was killed in a US air strike on Monday.

Somalia’s government said, The Straits Times publishes this report on Tuesday.

‘In a joint operation last night by the Somali national security and the United States, Al-Shebab intelligence chief Abdishakur, also known as Tahlil, who replaced the recently arrested former chief, was eliminated,’ Somalia’s National Security Agency said in a statement Tuesday.

BDST: 2206 HRS, DEC 30, 2014