6 Al Shabaab insurgents have been left dead in the latest airstrike by US forces in Somalia.

Officials said the airstrike was launched in the remote part of Golis Mountains where the insurgents have set up cells.

In a statement, the US Africa Command confirmed this as the seventh airstrike in a month against the ISIS-Somalia and Al-Shabaab.

U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. William West, who is the deputy director of operations, U.S. Africa Command said they will continue piling pressure on the insurgent networks in Somalia, to enable governance to take hold.

West said the continued precision airstrikes support Somali security forces efforts to protect the Somali people from insurgence and advocate long-term security in the region.

While feeding questions from the media, he said: “U.S. Africa Command will continue to work with its partners to transfer the responsibility for long-term security in Somalia from AMISOM to the Federal Government of Somalia and its Member States.

“In support of the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. forces will use all effective and appropriate methods to assist in the protection of the Somali people, including partnered military counterterrorism operations with the Federal Government of Somalia, AMISOM, and Somali National Army forces”.

According to the US-Africa command, no civilian was wounded during this week’s airstrikes.

Since 2007, Al Shabaab has fought to overthrow successive internationally-backed governments in Mogadishu.

It was in 2011 that the Al-Qaeda affiliated group was pushed out of Mogadishu, the Somali capital and subsequently from other key towns including the port city of Kismayu.

Kenyan forces are in Somalia fighting under the African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM)