WIRE โ€” Mogadishu (HOL) โ€” Somalia's State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ali Bal'ad, has pushed back against a new International Crisis Group report warning that al-Shabab made major military gains in 2025 and reversed many of the territorial advances claimed by the Somali government over the past two years.

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