This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
This time around, fewer than 500 US troops will be deployed, which has been described as "a repositioning of forces already in theatre who have travelled in and out of Somalia on an episodic basis" by US National Security spokeswoman Adrienne Watson.