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Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa

Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa
Operation Enduring Freedom - djibouti2.jpg
French Naval commandos (green) and United States soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Regiment (tan) participate in an exercise at Djibouti in June 2004.
Date 7 October 2002 – ongoing
(14 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)
Location Horn of Africa and Gulf of Aden
Result

Ongoing

  • 21 high level Al-Shabaab leaders killed
Belligerents

 NATO:

CJTF-HOA allies:

Non-NATO allies:

Insurgents:


Pirates:

  • Somali Marines
  • National Volunteer Coast Guard (NVCG)
  • Marka group
  • Puntland Group
  • Yemeni Pirates
Commanders and leaders

Casualties and losses
 United States
31 non-combat fatalities (see below)
Islamic insurgents:
290-521 militants killed
(American operations only)
Pirates:
More than 1,200 captured
10–57 civilians killed
(American operations only)
Dis: Disbanded
*: Former commanders

Ongoing

 NATO:

CJTF-HOA allies:

Non-NATO allies:

Insurgents:

Pirates:

Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa (OEF-HOA) is the name of the military operation defined by the United States as combating militant Islamism and piracy in the Horn of Africa. It is one component of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), which includes eight African states stretching from the far northeast of the continent to the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea in the west. The other OEF mission in Africa is known as Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara (OEF-TS), which, until the creation of the new United States Africa Command, was run from the United States European Command.

The Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) is the primary (but not sole) military component assigned to accomplish the objectives of the mission. The naval component is the multinational Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150) which operates under the direction of the United States Fifth Fleet. Both of these organizations have been historically part of United States Central Command. In February 2007, United States President George W. Bush announced the establishment of the United States Africa Command which took over all of the area of operations of CJTF-HOA in October 2008.


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