Al-Qaeda may have been exaggerating.

Separate attacks in Somalia have targeted a US special forces base in the town of Baledogle and a European military convoy in the capital, Mogadishu...
Al-Shabab said its fighters stormed the base after using a car bomb to blast through its gates.

The US Mission to Somalia denied al-Shabab fighters penetrated the camp's defences, saying Somali security forces repelled the attack.

Whatever is true, it caused the U.S. military to launch retaliatory airstrikes, which looks a lot like a war.

Did you know we were at war in Somalia?
I doubt even 1% of Americans know it.

You know another place we are at war?