00:00These Somali government soldiers are on a mission to storm an Islamic State stronghold.
00:07The fighters have set up bases in rough terrain where roads are virtually unmotorable and are littered with explosives.
00:14Government forces have made slow but significant gains, retaken territory from the group and disrupted its oppressions.
00:22But the fight is big and local forces are struggling, often relying on airstrikes by the U.S. military to knock out insurgent camps.
00:31To be honest with you, ISIS's greatest headquarter globally is here in these mountains, Al-Miskat.
00:39I think much of the world doesn't know that we are fighting against international terrorism.
00:46The skirmishes involve fierce gun battles.
00:50The Islamic State affiliate in Somalia emerged in 2015 as a breakaway faction from Al-Shabaab.
00:57On this raid, the soldiers say they have seen evidence of Islamic State cooperation with the Houthis of Yemen.
01:05I am confident that there is to an extent a cooperation between the two.
01:12We have found letters that indicate these correspondence between the Islamic State group and the Houthis.
01:21The number of Islamic State militants in the country are estimated to be in their hundreds,
01:26mostly scattered in the Kal-Miskat mountains in Puntland's Bari region.
01:31Whether it is pressed or the river and the Houthis is a oppression or version in place.
01:34The南 S Wilhemish is the hidden space after the gun of a Speaker of Jeremiah's Bari region.
01:38We conduct the likes of the escapees.
01:40We conduct theenario charges against the Soviets.
01:41Let us keep using the
01:54our borders and offeners.
01:56We conduct the envy of the ISIS and the Hitler wars.
