In Somalia, U.S. officials have acknowledged the number and identities of victims from Sunday’s U.S. airstrike remain unknown. Somali officials say Islamist fighters were killed fleeing along Somalia’s border with Kenya. Local residents say dozens of civilians were killed. The Pentagon says the target of the strikes were members of al-Qaeda connected to the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. On Tuesday, Somali President Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed defended the attack.

Somali President Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed: “I think they are right to strike, because some of those who fled are the ones who bombed the embassy in Nairobi and also in Tanzania and a hotel in Mombasa. They are wanted, and they are known as terrorists. They destroyed embassies and killed people.”

The U.S. airstrike has set off fierce protest in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

Mogadishu resident Abdullahi Mohamoud Mohamed: “I am very, very sorry about these American airstrikes, but we will take revenge. All our people must talk to each other and not to foreigners. We do not accept these airstikes on our land by the Americans and the Ethiopians.”