Al Jazeera reported that local families have reported deaths, injuries, and displacement after the Trump administration accelerated U.S. airstrikes against armed groups in Somalia. As of September 2026, the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) recorded 84 airstrikes. Despite reports of civilian casualties, AFRICOM stated that the available evidence was insufficient to meet its "more likely than not" threshold for determining that U.S. airstrikes caused the reported harm.