American Secretary of State John Kerry is insisting the US will never stop in its effort to hold terrorists accountable.
It follows the failure of American Special Forces to capture a leader of Al-Shabab - the group behind last month's Kenyan shopping centre attack.
The American raid in Somalia was one of two operations in Africa yesterday.
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In Libya, US Navy Seals captured the Senior Al Qaeda member Anas Al Libi - believed to be a mastermind of the 1998 Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
But an Al-Shaabab spokesperson says the American raid in Somalia ended in failure: