Kismayo — Witnesses say battle looms in villages around the main port city of Kismayo, the last major stronghold of Somalia's Al Qaeda-linked Al shabab militants in south Somalia.
Somali national army and their allied African Union forces, primarily Kenyan army attacked with mortars and machine guns on Al shabab controlled Birta-dheer village, Located on the outskirts of Kismayo, according to the reports.
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