U.S. airstrikes on a cave complex in northeastern Somalia earlier this month killed 14 senior members of the Islamic State’s local group, including an ISIS leader who helped finance the deployment of jihadists into the United States and Europe.

On Tuesday, U.S. Africa Command officials said the Feb. 1 strike targeted an ISIS hideout located about 50 miles southeast of Bosaso in the Horn of Africa.

“Degrading ISIS and other terrorist organizations’ ability to plot and conduct attacks that threaten the U.S. homeland, our partners, civilians remains central to U.S. Africa Command’s mission,” U.S. officials said in a statement.

Among those killed in the airstrikes was Ahmed Maeleninine, identified by Africa Command as a “key ISIS recruiter, financier and external operations leader.”

The Feb. 1 airstrike was the first military action authorized by President Trump since his inauguration last month. Authorities said no civilians were injured in the U.S.-led attacks.

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