Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, which hosts several thousand U.S. military and civilian personnel, is roughly 80 miles from Perim Island, which the Houthis seized last week.

A new Army psychological operations unit takes its nickname from an African bird called the drongo. Drongo is also an insult in Australian slang.

Neither al-Shabab nor the ISIS affiliate in Somalia has demonstrated the reach needed to pose a significant danger to the US, the Defense Priorities think tank said.

A new series of American airstrikes in Somalia ended a brief lull in recent attacks against Islamic militants battling the country’s federal government, U.S. officials said.

The Army’s drone training initiative comes as African countries work to acquire and use unmanned aerial vehicles and other emerging technologies to address a host of security issues.

The inspector general probe validated a hotline complaint that personnel at Chabelley Airfield near Djibouti were routinely exposed to “a thick fog of smoke” from trash burning, which caused breathing difficulties and other symptoms.

A new small-arms range opened at Chabelley Airfield, giving U.S. forces based there more chances to sharpen their aim before being deployed for combat operations, Air Force officials said.

The U.S. is sending about 200 service members to Nigeria in the coming weeks to train local military forces battling Islamist militants, according to two major American news outlets.

The Kenya Defense Forces, in partnership with the United States, broke ground on the runway expansion at the Manda Bay airfield.

Islamic State militants in Somalia were hit on Dec. 15 and Dec. 16 in the vicinity of the group’s enclave near the Golis Mountains in the country’s north, AFRICOM said.