WASHINGTON — A medical evacuation helicopter reached five U.S. Special Forces soldiers in Somalia on Friday roughly 20 minutes after they radioed that they were being shelled by Islamist militants, ...
A U.S. commando killed in a Somalia firefight against al-Shabaab militants was identified as U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Alexander Conrad, 26, of Chandler, Ariz., the Department of Defense said late Saturday ...