CNN News:美國軍方擊中索馬里青年黨領(lǐng)袖 生死尚不清楚

Welcome to CNN STUDENT NEWS. Current events without commercials for middle and high school students. I`m Carl Azuz.

歡迎收看為中高中生開放的不含商業(yè)廣告的CNN學(xué)生新聞，我是Carl Azuz。

We start today in Somalia.

今天我們從索馬里開始說起。

It`s located in eastern Africa. It`s been very unstable in recent decades, though Somalia`s in the process of building a federal republic. Somalia`s been fighting a terrorist group called al-Shabaab. It wants to turn the nation into a theocracy, a fundamentalist Islamic country. It has murdered dozens of civilians in attacks in east Africa. This week, the U.S. attacked al-Shabaab. It`s done that at least twice in the past year.

索馬里位于非洲東部，在最近幾年里一直很不穩(wěn)定，盡管他們一直處于建立一個聯(lián)邦共和國的進程當(dāng)中。索馬里一直效力一個名為青年黨的恐怖組織，這個組織想要把這個國家變成政教合一的伊斯蘭國家。為此已經(jīng)殺害了非洲東部數(shù)十名平民，本周美國軍方攻擊了青年黨基地，在過去的一年里至少發(fā)生過兩次。

Somali intelligence officials say Monday`s airstrike possibly by an American drone like this hit a convoy of al-Shabaab officials.

索馬里情報機構(gòu)官員表示周一的空襲可能由美國無人機發(fā)射并集中了青年黨官員的車隊。

The U.S. says it was targeting their leader, we don`t know yet if he was killed.

美國方面稱其集中了青年黨領(lǐng)袖，但不確定是否死亡。

Meanwhile, news broke yesterday that another terrorist group we`ve been reporting on had killed an American journalist. This is the second time in a month that ISIS, Islamic state in Iraq and Syria has brutally murdered a U.S. civilian who was abducted in the Middle East.

同時，昨天的新聞也報道稱另一個恐怖組織殺害了一名美國記者。這是本月以來伊斯蘭恐怖組織第二次殘忍殺害在中東遭綁架的美國公民。

It said it did it in response to U.S. airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq.

據(jù)報道稱這是對美國空襲伊拉克ISIS組織的報復(fù)。

Just the facts: NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It has 28 member countries and their mostly European, though Canada and the U.S. are also members.

事實上北約是北大西洋公約的簡稱，有28個國家組成，盡管加拿大和美國也屬于該組織成員但大部分是歐洲國家，。

NATO aims to protect these members through diplomacy, and if necessary military action.

北約的目的是通過外交保護組織成員，必要時候采取軍事行動。

It operates on the idea of collective defense and attack on one NATO country is an attack on all of them.

如果一個北約成員國家對抗所有其他成員國的話，北約將會采取措施進行防御和進攻。