Kenya: U.S. Bolsters Kenya Base Security After Americans Killed By Al-Shabaab

A The U.S. military deployed additional forces to Kenya on Monday to bolster security at a key airfield after an attack a day earlier by Somalia's al Shabaab militants that killed three Americans, the military's Africa Command said.

The attack presented Washington with yet another crisis just as the Pentagon grapples with a rapidly escalating standoff with Iran following a Friday U.S. drone strike in Baghdad that killed top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.

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