Reports from the opening of the war between the Puntland forces and the Daesh group say that a heavy battle has taken place between the two sides in the past 24 hours and resulted in casualties among them.
This battle was a face-to-face battle between the Puntland forces and the Daesh fighters, the details of which are available, they say that some of the Puntland officers leading the forces were killed and some were injured.
More than 15 soldiers were also killed in this battle, and more than 50 soldiers were injured, as confirmed by informed sources whose names have been withheld for security reasons.
The spokesman of the Puntland Defense Forces, General Mohamed Mohamud Ahmed, told VOA that the Puntland forces have achieved success in a face-to-face battle with the Daesh group in the past 24 hours, and at the same time they killed 57 fighters, including foreigners, and captured new territory.
The spokesman admitted that their forces suffered losses in this war, which he described as the heaviest between Puntland and Daesh, although he did not mention the number of losses of their forces.
The war between Puntland and Daesh has been going on for the last few months in the mountains of Al-Miskaad in the Bari region, which is part of the Golis mountain chain, and the people who know the area said that the area is steep, mountainous and rocky and cannot be accessed by technical vehicles.
