US soldier killed in Somalia ID’d:

Supporters of Moise Katumbi, leader of the coalition party Ensemble, attend a rally of all the opposition parties in the coalition on June 9, in Kinshasa, the day after the International war crimes judges in The Hague acquitted the former Congolese vice-president on appeal, overturning an 18-year sentence for war crimes committed in the Central

African Republic. (AFP)

A US commando killed in a Somalia firefight against al-Shebab militants was identified as US Army Staff Sgt Alexander Conrad, 26, of Chandler, Arizona, the Department of Defense said late Saturday.

Sgt Conrad was killed and four other commandos were wounded Friday during an operation against the militants, the US military said.

Conrad, born in Mesa, Arizona, was attached to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Airborne, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, said Lt. Colonel Robert Bockholt, an Army spokesman.

He was a Human Intelligence, noncommissioned officer.

Conrad, and the US special operations forces were fighting alongside about 800 troops from the Somali National Security Forces and Kenyan Defense Forces when they were attacked about 2:45 pm Friday by mortars and small arms fire.

Meanwhile, four US service members who were wounded in an extremist attack in Somalia that killed one special operations soldier have been treated and discharged, the US military