CNN News:美国军方击中索马里青年党领袖 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.

欢迎收看为中高中生开放的不含商业广告的CNN学生新闻，我是Carl Azuz。

We start today in Somalia.

今天我们从索马里开始说起。

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.

索马里位于非洲东部，在最近几年里一直很不稳定，尽管他们一直处于建立一个联邦共和国的进程当中。索马里一直效力一个名为青年党的恐怖组织，这个组织想要把这个国家变成政教合一的伊斯兰国家。为此已经杀害了非洲东部数十名平民，本周美国军方攻击了青年党基地，在过去的一年里至少发生过两次。

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

索马里情报机构官员表示周一的空袭可能由美国无人机发射并集中了青年党官员的车队。

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

美国方面称其集中了青年党领袖，但不确定是否死亡。

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.

同时，昨天的新闻也报道称另一个恐怖组织杀害了一名美国记者。这是本月以来伊斯兰恐怖组织第二次残忍杀害在中东遭绑架的美国公民。

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

据报道称这是对美国空袭伊拉克ISIS组织的报复。

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.

事实上北约是北大西洋公约的简称，有28个国家组成，尽管加拿大和美国也属于该组织成员但大部分是欧洲国家，。

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

北约的目的是通过外交保护组织成员，必要时候采取军事行动。

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

如果一个北约成员国家对抗所有其他成员国的话，北约将会采取措施进行防御和进攻。