Puntland Special Forces (PSF) and ISIS fighters clashed this morning near Balidhidhin district in Bari region.
Puntland Special Forces (PSF) and ISIS fighters clashed this morning near Balidhidhin district in Bari region.
Residents reported hearing the sound of gunfire for hours in a mountainous area 15km west of Balidhidhin.
Independent sources say the fighting resulted in casualties on both sides, although no official figures are available.
Residents, mostly pastoralists and pastoralists, have been fleeing the area.
Puntland has not yet commented on the fighting in the Balidhidhin area.
Puntland and ISIS have been fighting since 2016 in the Cal-Miskaat Mountains in the far east of the Bari region, and civilians sometimes suffer casualties.
Jama Feyte, a long-time Somali-American security expert who writes stories about the Islamists in Puntland, believes that Puntland, with the help of the international community, will defeat Al-Shabaab and ISIS.
He accused the Somali government of concentrating only on defending Mogadishu and not spending money on the Al-Shabaab war in Puntland
