Somali officials and local media reported on Sunday that 13 fighters of the "Al-Shabab Mujahideen" movement were killed in a US air strike in the center of the country.
Military officials, who preferred not to be identified, told Anadolu Agency that the air strike destroyed hideouts of the movement's fighters in Hiran province.
The Somali National Television stated that the operation was carried out in coordination with the Somali army and led to the killing of 13 militants.
The US military has not yet confirmed the air strike, and if confirmed, it will be the second in less than a week in Somalia.
Earlier this week, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced that it had launched "air strikes against Al-Shabaab terrorists who attacked Somali National Army forces near Balad Wein," the capital of Hiran province.
AFRICOM said in a statement that 4 of the movement's fighters were killed in the strike it carried out on August 9.
Somalia has been waging a war for years against the "Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen Movement", which was founded in early 2004, and it is an armed movement ideologically affiliated with Al-Qaeda, and it has adopted several operations that have claimed hundreds of lives.