PUNTLAND, SOMALIA – FEBRUARY 5, 2025 Puntlant army conducted a military operation in the Golis Mountains in the Somali autonomous territory of Putland. The operation targeted ISIS members who had begun to gather and radicalise in the mountains. More than 50 terrorists were successfully eliminated.
Just days before that, on February 1, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump authorized an airstrike that eliminated some of the ISIS leaders who were hiding in those mountains. At the same time, five of their bases were destroyed.