US special forces have carried out two separate raids in Somalia and Libya targeting senior Islamist militants, American officials say.
A Navy Seals team had targeted a senior leader of the al-Shabab Islamist group in the Somalian town of Barawe.
In a separate operation, US forces captured Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai – better known as Anas al-Libi – who was wanted over the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
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